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Who is recieving the “Cash for Clunkers cars” scrap in your area?
August 13th, 2009I was curious if anyone that is in the auto salvage industry was getting cars from the local dealerships in your area? It seems that alot of the big corporate auto salvage companies are recieving all the scrap in some places. I do not see how the goverment did not organize the scrap end better. I believe that the cars should go to auto salvage or scrap yards within the zip code of the dealerships that they were traded in at. Don’t you agree that would help stimulate the small salvage businesses throughout America? Instead the big corporate companies are recieving the scrap in some areas. Locking in dealerships. Maybe they could have rotated the cars to the businesses on the list of yards that could recieve Junk cars? What are your views on this issue? Is your business gaining profits or suffering losses from the “Cash for Clunkers” program?
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August 13th, 2009Guide for the ” cash for clunkers” bill.
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How the cash for clunkers program would work.
June 30th, 2009By James R. Healey, USA TODAY
House Democrats and the Obama administration have agreed on a compromise for a so-called cash-for-clunkers bill.
Similar to European programs, the legislation — also called “fleet modernization” or “scrappage” — would provide federal vouchers of up to $4,500 for people to trade in their vehicles for new ones that get better mileage.
The European programs are expected to result in 400,000 to 500,000 more new vehicle sales this year than otherwise would be the case. Backers say a U.S. version could add 1 million sales at a time Chrysler is in bankruptcy court and General Motors is fighting to stay out. Both are operating on government loans.
Talk of the vouchers has kept some would-be new car and truck buyers on the sidelines, waiting to see whether they’d qualify for government help. So, for the moment, the idea is hurting sales. Based on interviews with lobbyists and congressional offices, how it might work:
Q: What’s the idea behind “cash-for-clunkers”?
A: Supporters say it would replace older vehicles with new ones that use less fuel, are safer and pollute less. And it would give the struggling auto industry a sales boost.
Q: What’s the bill’s status?
A: It’s in a House committee and backed by the president. Senators from both parties are prepared to co-sponsor similar legislation as soon as this week.
Q: Sounds like a sure thing.
A: Not so. Environmental lobbyists, who don’t think it boosts fuel economy enough, might derail it or get it changed enough in the Senate that a compromise would take awhile.
Q: Any groups trying to keep it from being derailed?
A: You bet. Car companies, autoworkers, component suppliers and car dealers, among them. The House bill “will help jump-start auto sales and the U.S. economy, while also providing environmental benefits and increasing energy security,” says Ziad Ojakli, Ford Motor spokesman.
Q: What’s the price tag?
A: About $4 billion. The money is currently proposed to come from Energy Department funding included in the already enacted $787 billion economic stimulus package.
Q: If the House bill becomes law, how would it work?
A: The government would send up to $4,500 to the selling dealer on your behalf, if you:
1. Trade in a car that — this is a key point — has been registered and in use for at least a year, and has a federal combined city/highway fuel-economy rating of 18 or fewer miles per gallon.
2. Buy a new car, priced at $45,000 or less and rated at least 4 mpg better than the old one (gets a $3,500 voucher). If the new one gets at least 10 mpg better, you get the full $4,500.
Example: Trade that well-worn 1985 Chevrolet Impala V-8 police special, rated 14 mpg, for a 2009 Impala V-8 rated 19 mpg and the government will kick in $3,500. Downsize to Chevy Cobalt (27 mpg) or even a larger Honda Accord (24 mpg) and get $4,500.
Mileage ratings back to 1985 are at www.fueleconomy.gov.
Q: What about trucks?
A: It’s more complicated.
For standard-duty models — most SUVs, vans and pickups:
1. The old one must be rated 18 mpg or less.
2. The new one must be at least 2 mpg better for $3,500 or at least 5 mpg better for $4,500.
For heavy-duties (6,000 to 8,500 pounds gross vehicle weight rating):
1. The old one must be rated 15 mpg or less.
2. The new one must be rated at least 1 mpg better for $3,500, or 2 mpg or more for $4,500.
Work trucks (8,500 to 10,000 lbs.) don’t have mpg ratings, so age is the criteria. The old one has to be a 2001 model or older. And only $3,500 is available.
Q: Is it worth it for $4,500?
A: The assumption is that the people most likely to use the program would trade in cars worth less than $4,500. Thus, while not necessarily clunkers, most would be at least 8 years old.
Q: Can I combine these incentives with other offers?
A: Yes. For instance, you could trade for a hybrid and get the voucher, claim the hybrid tax credit and get dealer or manufacturer discounts. You also could deduct the sales tax, if any, on your next federal tax return.
Q: Would I ever see the $3,500 or $4,500?
A: No. It’s an electronic transfer from the government to the dealer. Dealers want to be sure the amount can be counted as cash from the buyer, which would help buyers get credit because they’re financing less.
Q: What does the dealer do with my trade-in?
A: Gives it to a salvage operator. The engine, transmission and some other parts must be destroyed so they can’t be reused. The idea is to cull fuel-thirsty, polluting drivetrains. Operators can resell other parts, however.
Q: What’s to keep me from buying a junkyard car for a few hundred bucks, getting it barely running and trading it?
A: The one-year-in-service requirement noted earlier. Lawmakers wanted to exclude the revival of so-called junkyard dogs, because they’ve already been taken off the road.
Q: What do I get if I recently bought a car that would have qualified?
A: The bill contemplates making the incentives retroactive to March 30, but it’s unclear how to find and junk cars that were traded in that long ago. Some might already be back on the road, driven by new owners.
Q: What’s wrong with environmentalists’ idea that the new car or truck should get much better fuel economy than the House bill currently requires?
A: Opponents say the environmentalists’ fuel-economy improvement thresholds are so high that foreign brands benefit disproportionately, because their lineups tend now to have more small, fuel-efficient vehicles.
But the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy complained in a statement criticizing the House bill that the proposal as it stands now is way too lenient.
The council charged that the bill “aims primarily to clear Detroit’s unsold inventory from the storage lots,” rather than to seriously cut fuel use.
Q: How soon could this become law?
A: Depends on how much critics can sway the Senate, and to what piece of legislation this “fleet modernization” bill is attached.
If it becomes part of a larger bill that’s likely to get lots of debate, it could take awhile. If it’s attached to urgent, must-pass legislation, such as an appropriation bill, it could move quickly to the president’s desk.
A current plan is to add the program as an amendment to climate change legislation now being considered.
As proposed, it would be in effect for just one year.
 SUMMARY OF CASH-FOR-CLUNKERS AGREEMENT | Story |
| Passenger car | Light-duty truck | Large light-duty truck (6,000-8,500 lbs.) | Work truck (8,500-15,000 lbs.) | |||||
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| Minimum fuel economy for new vehicle | 22 mpg (EPA combined) | 18 mpg (EPA combined) | 15 mpg (EPA combined) | Not applicable | ||||
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| $3,500 voucher | Mileage improvement of at least 4 mpg. | Mileage improvement of at least 2 mpg. | Mileage improvement of at least 1 mpg or trade-in of a work truck. | Trade-in must be at least pre-2002. | ||||
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| $4,500 voucher | Mileage improvement of at least 10 mpg. | Mileage improvement of at least 5 mpg. | Mileage improvement of at least 2 mpg. | NA | ||||
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| Source: House Committee on Energy and Commerce | ||||||||
How long will my auto parts last ?
June 30th, 2009
Old-style junkyards have themselves become an endangered species, but catch a glimpse of one, and the impression it leaves is that of decay. Rows of cars, with cataract headlamps and big chrome teeth missing from their grilles, slowly sink into the earth while corrosion returns the metal to a more elemental state. While more ancient vehciles might decompose away to nothingness, modern cars are filled with materials that just won’t go away. That’s not to say Neff’s SHO will be recognizable as any kind of automotive touchstone when it’s unearthed from somewhere below Cleveland in ten centuries. What will remain of our vehicles is a mish-mash of petrochemical fodder that will surely be creatively interpreted by future archaeologists.
No metal, no leather, nothing organic will be left. Even the tires, after providing a snack for rubber-eating microbes, will then have the inner steel belting eaten away by the elements. Plastics will likely look as fresh as the day they were ejected from their molds. Seat foam, too, has shown amazing longevity in recent tests, degrading not one whit after being buried in a landfill for 700 days. Glass is pretty much the only other thing in your car that hangs around as long as the oil-based stuff, having a shelf life conservatively estimated at one million years. Wouldn’t it be grand to see the window switches, headlamp clusters, and other bits and pieces artfully arranged into some kind of “artifact” that never existed? Too bad we’re not going to be around to see what kind of sense future man makes of our automotive trash.
How long does it take for a vehicle to decompose?
June 30th, 2009Sobering Statistics: How long will it take for your car to decompose?
Filed under: Etc., Green Culture, Green Daily
Take a walk through any junkyard in the world and you’re likely to come across any number of vehicles that are a mere rusted-out shell of their former selves. That’s mostly because sheet metal is thin and, as the outer-most skin of an automobile, takes the brunt of the weather’s nastiest beatings. Underneath, it’s a different story entirely.
An article on AOL Autos examines the major bits and pieces of an automobile and offers rough estimates of how long it takes for the average vehicle to rot away, and there are a few surprises. For instance, rubber tires decompose naturally over a fairly reasonable-sounding period of 50 to 80 years. Wait, what’s that? Engine blocks will take at least 500 years to break down? Ouch.
Worse yet are the polyurethane seat cushions under your fine leather interior: they take at least 1,000 years to decompose. The longest-lasting piece of your car, though, is the glass, which never really goes away. It will reportedly take a million years or more before your vehicle’s windshield is ground down to powder.
Fortunately, we generally don’t bury old cars in the ground. Nearly every bit of modern automobiles is recyclable, and automakers have been making serious advancements to bring that figure as close to 100 percent as possible. USCAR says that about 95 percent of vehicles go through the end-of-life recycling process. Still, AOL Auto’s sobering figures should serve to remind us how important it is to properly dispose of used-up vehicular machinery, especially with the advent of government-sponsored scrapping programs.
[Source: AOL Autos | Photo: nico.cavallotto]
Is it more eco-friendly to keep your old car or buy new?
Filed under: Green Culture, Green Daily
Here’s a question that often comes up when discussing the green automotive scene: Is it more eco-friendly to keep your old car or to buy a new, more fuel efficient model? The answer is, as you may have guessed, very complicated. One way to attack the question is on carbon emissions, and this is the main tack that Scientific American has taken when analyzing the issue. According to SciAm, due to the emissions created when manufacturing vehicles, you should keep your current car as long as possible, so long as it is in decent running condition and getting reasonably good fuel mileage. Case closed?
Not so fast - while that’s not necessarily the wrong answer, let’s muddy up the waters a bit, shall we? Depending on the year of manufacture, a given car may not be equipped with many modern emissions controls that are standard on current models. Even if a car continues to pass its emissions testing, it is generally only required to meet the standards that were in place when it was new, and those requirements have gotten much more strict in the past few years.
Scrapping a car, as pointed out by SciAm, isn’t a particularly green option, though retrofitting modern emissions equipment is tough. A conversion to electric sounds like a nice option, but then you must consider where the electricity is coming from. As you can see, this is anything but a cut-and-dry answer, and it depends largely on what green aspect you consider most important. To keep or to buy new, that is the question. Thanks for the tip, Micah!
[Source: Scientific American]
cash for clunkers
May 25th, 2009I was wondering what your thoughts were on the Cash For Clunkers program that has recently been passed been President Obama. This program in a nut shell, says that American car dealerships will honor a voucher given by the Gov’t., for up to $4500, towards a new car that gets at least 4mpg better than the car they are trading. The cars traded in can not be resold to salvage yards or scrap yards. The vehicles have to be destroyed. This article found in USA TODAY by James R. Healey, explains the program; http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2009-05-11-chrysler-gm-cash-clunkers_N.htm
