Is it just me who thinks that crushing a perfectly serviceable car over 10 years old to get 3 grand towards a new one for environmental reasons is a hoodwink?

1/. To build a new car makes as much pollution as driving that car for ten years does at average kilometres.

2/ pollution is measured as a percentage of what comes out of the exhaust not by how much nasties come out in total IE a 50cc 2 stroke motorbike would come out dirty as hell compared to say a brand new Hummer H1 if measured by percent of total gasses coming out BUT total nasties spewing out per kilometre travelled the Hummer would be dirtiest because of how much more fuel and air is going in (cubic feet of exhaust gas coming out) yes that pollution is more diluted but there is probably more of it in total. This is purely an example based on roughly the smallest vehicle available vs roughly the largest.


3/ Crushing a complete car means you can't use it's parts to keep similar vehicle on the road. This means that the surviving vehicles have to have new (and often imported)parts fitted because used ones are not available. This is directly against the "reduce reuse recycle" mantra.

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Edited by user Wednesday, 25 March 2009 9:51:31 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

They should only be offering it to people willing to purchase an Aussie made car.

Cheers,

Mick
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There is no efn way Im crushing any of my cars to get a new one!
Aussie made or not !

There's a very important point you've all missed here.....
Road accidents cost the community big time, so the idea of getting people into new cars is as much about safety as green house gases.

In Japan they don't crush them , but after 5 years the

Better idea would be for car makers to worry about making something decent that people would wanna buy rather than sit around thinking up ways to bribe them to buy their poxy rubbish.
If you take away older cars and you'll lose ten times the jobs, not to

In the garage I have an XA coupe and a Suzuki Katana under going rebuilds.

On the driveway sits a 99 Hyundai excel and a 96 Toyota Camry which my wife and I use as daily transport,both have about 190000km's on the clock.
Our daily drivers are super

What you say DA is perfectly true however I did mention the "For environmental reasons" being a hoodwink.

I totally agree with the safety issue however annual roadworthy checks would go a long way towards fixing the problems associated with cars of

I've seen the same thing at Bendigo swap each year. One particular van I've seen there each year for the past 10+ years, that has so much rust, it's held together with chicken wire & bog, that flexes when the rear & side doors are opened....

Qld is ju

Well 3 grand. i would like to see the details to that!
Sounds like a typical scam for a start.
You don't get nothing for nothing.
Well brown nose Rudd is giving your tax money back now, but most will have to pay it back in the end! really. just you wai

No RWC nessesary in South Australia, Speed limit's 110 KMH and BAC was until recently, .08 (now .05 i think) and their road toll is lower than most.
Northern Territory had unlimited speed limits till not long ago and iirc, they are now set at 140 KMH.