Cash For Clunkers - Proposed Federal Vehicle Scrap Program
Included in this package is a proposal to institute a federal vehicle scrappage program. After seeing this bill mentioned on the SEMA Action Network website I wanted to take a second to inform our readers of the program and hopefully inspire you to take action against it.
The Federal Scrappage program will quite frankly give tax credits to people who wish to turn in their older vehicles to be scrapped. The attempted benefits of this program are supposed to be increased infrastructure and more jobs created as well as help drive car sales for American car manufacturers. I for one strongly disagree with the proposal and believe that this will actually be a backwards step towards making any real progress.
This is not purely because I have a love of older cars, but a hatred of wasted tax dollars on programs that will not benefit the American people. Americans rely on the ability to be able to find cheap and affordable transportation and being able to reuse and continue to buy older cars. As you can see from my website I myself have made it a mission to spread this message and help people realize how much vehicle they can get for their hard earned dollar.
The "Big Three" are not solely to blame for their own problems as a combination of a crisis in the markets of credit,fuel, and housing have limited the American peoples ability easily buy a new car and be able to afford to make monthly payments and this crisis has also very suddenly changed our tastes and demands in what we expect in a vehicle. This change in our demands has hit the big three in a time where they do not seem currently capable of adjusting in time and this has lead to the downward spiral.
Commercial vehicles are what really drives this country. Practically every product we have and use is based on its ability to be delivered to us via commercial trucking and equipment. We need to focus on a restructure of this infrastructure and a promotion of the use of cleaner and more cost effective fueling methods in our commercial vehicles as well as provide government credits and incentives for companies to be able to make these changes. If our commercial transportation industry can expand and become more efficient then we should see a domino effect in the reduced cost of all of the products and services we use and need everyday. This can range from food to even home construction costs.
So if you haven't already contact your local representative and how they feel on this matter and lets do what we can to defend our old vehicles not just for their history, but for their role in providing inexpensive transportation for the American public.
About the Author:
Brian Ostrowiak is the co-creator of http://www.1000DollarAutos.com and an avid car enthusiast who often buys and sells cars and trucks for less than one thousand dollars.
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