"Knittel did not analyze the program's other key objectives: stimulating the economy and providing relief for automobile manufacturers." I think the latter may

"Knittel did not analyze the program's other key objectives: stimulating the economy and providing relief for automobile manufacturers." I think the latter may be the ONLY real objective. Destroying perfectly good cars, which required a certain amount of energy to produce and which are still being productive, for the sake of reducing CO2 is just dumb. How much CO2 was generated in making the new cars? How much CO2 will be generated in making the new cars to replace the ,now empty, dealer lots? Maybe I'm being harsh, but the whole thing just seems really dumb. So, the guy standing next to you, with an car that gets 18mpg, gets thousands and thousands off of a new car and you don't, because your car gets 19mpg. Dumb. To top it off, you (and everyone else) get to pay for everyone else's new car! (Even if you didn't get one.) Ok, now I'm just ranting. I don't know all the facts, I haven't read pages and pages of editorials or the official propaganda about how it's saving the world...because I don't need to in order to know that it's dumb. Does this program make sense to you when you look at something like this: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... Congrats to those who profited from this, it's a pretty good scam.