| Dodece said: How does the engine seizing make me feel. Well it makes me feel damn good. We all gripe about high prices at the pump, and this is making sure that gas wasters will never make it back into the market. This may save upwards of a hundred million barrels of crude annually. More to the point people shouldn't be driving these Dinosaurs anyway. For those saying wait. Electric still has storage issues, and fuel cells do not have a commercially viable form of storage yet. So we are still going to be gripped by gas engines for quite a few years yet. So we are still going to have another gasoline generation. I am sorry, but it is going to take more time then you are thinking. Meanwhile keeping the automotive industry healthy will actually accelerate development. |
I'm not sure whether that Volvo was the S40 or the S60 but either way it is a car that gets somewhere between 22 and 24 "Combined" MPG which means that the only sedans which get dramatically better fuel economy are hybrids. Now, I could be wrong but looking at the video I saw mostly what looked like 5 to 10 year old cars which were mostly in good condition and the owners were likely going to buy a new car anyways.
Now, being that the people who own the 10 to 20 year old junkers that have awful fuel economy (and burn oil) tend to replace their cars with these 5 to 10 year old used cars how do they replace their cars with something more environmental when you destroy these cars? Seriously, wouldn't you rather have had the 10 to 20 year old car that puffs blue smoke and gets 15MPG off the road than this reasonably Efficient Volvo?
If this program is kept alive for any period of time all that is going to happen is the price of used cars are going to be pushed up to a level where people are "Forced" to take on more debt than they can handle; which is the kind of actions which caused the current recession in the first place.
