Don’t do it. Trade in your so-called clunker, that is. You will be guilty of murder. Once the ink has dried, you might want to go to confession. Murder of valuable used transmissions, engines and other parts for your old clunker.
Yes, that’s right. Guilty by association.
Cash for Clunkers trade-ins aren’t being recycled and salvaged. No, they’re not being parted out by recycling yards and sold to the public like they should be. Instead, the engines are loaded up with sodium silicate until it’s a dust. As for the rest of the car, care to take a guess at its fate? Except for the used transmissions, they are more worthless than a wing nut.
You’d think that this was some kind of rude comedy or joke on some of us. Some of us want to slip off our hats and cover our hearts. These cars are being put down, executioner style, a bullet to the motor.
C4C supporters say they’re taking unsafe and unwanted vehicles off the road.
Not true. These vehicles are wanted, and in high numbers. Many recyclers and automotive suppliers who make a living off of clunkers and car enthusiasts- even the average Citizen wanting, say, a used power steering pump can’t even touch these cars. It’s forbidden.
What is happening is it’s going to become impossible to find quality used engines and cut down on the rest of the salvageable parts so many people count on to keep their cars going.. Yes used transmissions will be available, at a higher price, compound that with the body and repair shops losing a valuable source of affordable body parts, leaving them unable to perform “affordable” body work on older cars. The future doesn’t look so bright, auto-wise. .
You don’t see lawmakers browsing salvage yards on the weekend to fix a broken taillight or smashed hood. No, someone else does the dirty work for them.
Speaking of dirty work, why would a death sentence for engines come about in the first place? With the economy hurting and so many people out of work or holding jobs that pay less, it seems like bad timing to rip the useable parts us poor folks have counted on for years right out of our hands.They must have a lot of time on their hands.
Now, the only thing staining lawmakers’ hands is burned oil. From euthanized clunkers and engines.
Little do lawmakers know, however, is how much we need these so-called clunkers. Yes, working every day. Taking the kids to school or picking up the groceries. On the streets of America.
So save the clunkers from an unjust and frightful end. Lawmakers think the clunkers are being put out of their misery. What really needs to be put down, by lethal injection, is a bill that does the automotive industry no good in the first place. People depend on the transmissions that come out of the clunkers. That is the point, most people who drive clunkers can’t afford new cars or more expensive rebuilt parts instead of salvageable parts or they would have a newer car already.
