Cash for Cars

Ahhh, it's all happening again.

I see I was mentioned, thanks! And yeah, I am firmly of the belief that we should just get on with it and enjoy what we have. The sad thing is, I'm only of that belief because the notion of standing up for what is a passion of mine seems pointless.

It's very easy for people like us to think that we have some sort of clout, but the sad thing is, we don't, at all, not even a little bit. We live in our worlds of forums with shared content, friends with similar interests and lives which are closely linked to our passion, so for us, it's hard to compute the notion of our argument falling on deaf ears.

For every one of us, there will we a hundred people who see a car as nothing more than a white good, a disposable item that should renewed as fashion sees fit, or, occasionaly, as function sees fit.

If this is something we all believe in so smuch then we need to try to get our point across. We're sitting here, almost in shock, with a shared agreement that this scrappage scheme is only there to try and save an industry which has over-saturated itself from greed, and is now trying to use those 100 for ever one of us as a moral scapegoat via the liberal use of the word green.

It's working for them though, isn't it? The car companies are winning, they're suckering the punters in, chopping in perfectly servicable cars. And why? Because they, the manufacturers and clever marketing people have duped them into thinking they are doing something nobel and good, something, sigh, green. The thing is though, if they had the correct education they'd see sense, even the folk who struggle to remember what their own vehicle is.

People, as a whole, are NOT interested in cars. They're interested in carbon, green, environment and money. And if we had a big enough voice, I reckon we could generate quite a lot of interest...but sadly, we don't.

Chris

Brown bread mate.

The unions did a lot of disagreeing with the govenrment in the 70's and 80's and nearly bankrupted the country, the government STILL didn't listen to em, much as ui'd like to try i doubt theres much we could do against a "green" policy however dim it is.

You can only trade a car for discount if you've owned it for 12 months so that prevents people buying £200 cars solely for the reason of trading it in.
Also people who drive 10 year old cars usually do so because they either A, can't afford a new one (as said the dealers will reduce the discount so you end up paying the same regardless) or B, they see no reason to spend money unnessesarily.
Both reasons will be as valid with the scheme as without it and besides it'll be no different to last year when scrap prices were high and most main dealers wouldn't try to sell on a car that old these days anyway.
I don't see it as a threat, though I do see it as a giant waste of tax payers money.