• Pirky@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I know you’re being sarcastic but the cash for clunkers, while it worked pretty well, worked a little too well. Since that program it got harder to find cheap, old vehicles. Sure, they were inefficient, but they were cheap. Cheap cars don’t seem to exist much anymore.

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        1 year ago

        Removing inefficient cars from the roads was literally the point of the program. You’re saying the program worked exactly as intended

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          That would be a great outcome if manufacturing cars didn’t take resources and weren’t so expensive as to be out of reach for most

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          Not so fun for those relying for cheap cars for their transportation but there’s bad sides to everything.

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        I get it, but old cars are also much less efficient even than modern ICE cars, so if the goal is to facilitate a transition into EVs and hybrids it might make some sense. The obvious issue with that is that there is also an environmental cost to making new cars to replace all the old cars, and I personally don’t know how that pencils out compared to keeping people in older, inefficient cars, even if they have a pretty limited lifespan anyway…

        I guess I’m kind of torn on it. Personally I’d love to move away form my 2014 BMW which makes about 18mpg on average.