Let's face it, folks, this program is a big hot mess sold with a bunch of big lies, in a big hurry.br /br /I know it sounds trite, but I am realizing why it is so very appropriate to ask : span style="font-weight: bold;"You want these people in charge of the entire American system of health care???/spanbr /br /div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32290028/ns/us_news-environment/"‘Clunkers’ effect on pollution? A blip /a/divdiv class="abstract"br /div style="text-align: center;"Climate experts aren't impressed with program's carbon dioxide policybr //div/divblockquotedivdiv class="source"The Associated Press/divdiv class="updateTime"span id="udtD"span class="time"/spanspan class="date"Tues., Aug 4, 2009/span/span/divscript language="javascript" function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) { var n = document.getElementById("udtD"); if(pdt != '' n window.DateTime) { var dt = new DateTime(); pdt = dt.T2D(pdt); if(dt.GetTZ(pdt)) {n.innerHTML = dt.D2S(pdt,(('false'.toLowerCase()=='false')?false:true));} } } UpdateTimeStamp('633850284128630000');/script/divp class="textBodyBlack"WASHINGTON - "Cash for clunkers" could have the same effect on global warming pollution as shutting down the entire country — every automobile, every factory, every power plant — span style="font-weight: bold;"for an hour per year./span That could rise to three hours if the program is extended by Congress and remains as popular as it is now./pp class="textBodyBlack"Climate experts aren't impressed./pp class="textBodyBlack"Compared to overall carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, the pollution savings from cash for clunkers do not noticeably move the fuel gauge. Environmental experts say the program — conceived primarily to stimulate the economy and jump-start the auto industry — is not an effective way to attack climate change./pp style="font-weight: bold;" class="textBodyBlack""As a carbon dioxide policy, this is a terribly wasteful thing to do," said Henry Jacoby, a professor of management and co-director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at MIT. "The amount of carbon you are saving per federal expenditure is very, very small."/pp class="textBodyBlack"Officials expect a quarter-million gas guzzlers will be junked under the original $1 billion set aside by Congress — money that is now all but exhausted./pp class="textBodyBlack"Calculations by The Associated Press, using Department of Transportation figures, show that replacing those fuel hogs will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by just under 700,000 tons a year. While that may sound impressive, it's nothing compared to what the U.S. spewed last year: nearly 6.4 billion tons (and that was down from previous years)./pp class="textBodyBlack"That means on average, every hour, America emits 728,000 tons of carbon dioxide. span style="font-weight: bold;"The total savings per year from cash for clunkers translates to about 57 minutes of America's output of the chief greenhouse gas./span/pp class="textBodyBlack"span style="font-weight: bold;"/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;"/span/p/blockquotebr /I wonder will the Obama propaganda machine now go after climate experts?br /br /Reason Editor Matt Welch a href="http://reason.com/blog/show/135230.html"demolishes /a"Ideological shape-shifter and presidential benefit-of-the-doubt-giver" Andrew Sullivan's sycophantic ramblings about the program, summing it up tidily :br /blockquote"Cash-for-clunkers amounts to a rounding error in Tim Geithner's nose-hair at this point, which is probably why at least some liberals seem so genuinely baffled by the disproportionate criticism it has drawn. But for some of us it's also a nearly perfect symbol of economic statism run amok. The federal government is taking from the many, giving it to the less-than-many, destroying functional cars, funneling money to an auto industry that it already largely owns (at a hefty taxpayer price tag), then taking multiple (and multiply premature) bows for rescuing the economy and the auto industry in the process."/blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7893272060787897238-4607147208667269923?l=delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com'//div
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