Scrap Old Cars.

[Cameron]

From the CBC news. Due to emission concerns, the Feds are planning to get old cars off the road.
I hope it turns out to be nothing, but there has also been talk about an outright ban of older cars.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008...8/clunkers.html

[Russ]

From the CBC news. Due to emission concerns, the Feds are planning to get old cars off the road.
I hope it turns out to be nothing, but there has also been talk about an outright ban of older cars.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008...8/clunkers.html

did you read the article??
it is only offering incentives to people wishing to get their cars off the road.
certainly not a ban.
 

[piercedvw]

I agree.. they would never possibly be able to ban them all. Charging us through the ass one day for havinghtem on the road.. I could see that. They would never be crushed.
 Probably increase tax breaks on newer cars, etc..

Wonder how I convert my from a 64 to a '99?  :lol:  

[egspot]

Maybe they buy my Volvo.  

[68IIIbuggy]

The stupid thing about all this is that approximately half the pollution the average car creates is created during it's manufacture, and an as the years go by, there are fewer and fewer older cars on the road anyway. What about limiting the number of long-distance flights people can take instead?

[Bruce]

.... as the years go by, there are fewer and fewer older cars on the road anyway.....

Another stupid thing about that law is that our climate takes care of most old cars.  Cars in Canada (especially back east) typically rust away sooner than the engines give out.
Rust will remove more cars than any silly bureaucracy can.

[Chris]

These incentives are already offered in BC, so its not much change, it sounds more like political posturing from a government getting prepared in the event of an election.