can I assume that this is the same as the trade in scrapage scheme run in the UK?
for example, you buy a new car and they take your old one away and scrap it? in return you get money off the new car?
sounds fine in principal right? wrong! it's a shit idea.
firstly, I drive an old car because I can't afford a new car.
just taking £2k off the price of a new car won't change that, essentially it's either a case that your car will be worth more than the amount they'd let you trade it in for against a new car. (for example you're driving a true vintage/collectors item).
or your car is not worth the trade in value, so essentially you're getting a great deal, trading in a car worth perhaps only £100 and getting £2,000 back (off the price of a new car).
but didn't anyone think that there is a reason that people are driving around in cars that only cost them £100??
it's cause they can't afford a new car that cost £12k, and making it 10k instead won't change the fact that they can't afford that.
and Superman is right.
if anything they should be using the cars as scrap for parts, not just getting big metal bricks from them!
lets not forget that in all the time that these cars have been on the road they've probably produced less pollution than is generated in the process of making a new car.
that's right, the worst thing that you could do for the environment is actually buy a new car!! (and create demand for them to produce more new cars) stick with your old one, and yes, per mile it might produce a few more grams of CO2 but over a year, hell even a decade of heavy mileage that's still less than the amount of pollution created when a new car is made.