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Gordo:
Interesting article about the effect of the Germany scheme on the BBC News web site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8003508.stm

The law of unintended consequences strikes again.

carbore:
I agree if we had much of a car industry there may be a point to it, but we dont.

Also unless you swap for a smaller car then how much CO2 is saved, say 10yr old asrta 1.8 vs new astra 1.8 ? add in the C)2 cost of the new car/scrap the old car and it must take years to repay that CO2 debit it at all.

Basically its just to boost green consumerism, whihc is still consumerism but with added misplaced sumgness. 

Would they not be better off offering VAT off servicing/tuning by garages that would improve the running of mid life vehicles, keep them being reused (better than recycled) and also boost the spares/repairs economy?

Oh wait a minuet, small garages don't have huge pressure on political parties like vehicle mfrs do.

Disco Matt:
I've long said that "recycling" is just a con to allow consumerism to keep going without guilt.

Reusing is much better, but I've yet to see efforts towards making things easier to repair or ensuring that spare parts are reasonably priced (as opposed to costing as much as the original device).

I'm far less interested in "100% recyclable" than I am in "Spares available".

V8MoneyPit:

--- Quote from: carbore on April 17, 2009, 11:50:38 ---Would they not be better off offering VAT off servicing/tuning by garages that would improve the running of mid life vehicles, keep them being reused (better than recycled) and also boost the spares/repairs economy?
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But that type of suggestion is sensible. So do you really think the governement would implement it? I think not because it just doesn't fit in with the public brainwashing that is 'being green'  :roll:

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