Whoops! Cash for Clunkers turns out to be a clunker in it’s own right.

Rememebr when the FedGov borrowed wads of cash from the Chinese that my grandchildren will have to repay to save the environment by getting inefficient old cars off the streets and replacing them with ‘greener” cars?

Nazzo fast, Guido, as Alger is wont to say.

Money quote:

Though almost a million people poured into car dealerships eager to exchange their old jalopies for something shiny and new, recent reports indicate the entire program may have actually hurt the environment far more than it helped.

hat tip Pascal who was right with me in callingthis the malthusian murder of a lot of damned nice vehicles for no good reason, and a gigantic waste of resources.

I am writing this late at night

To be posted in the morning.

The Ogwife has laid her hands on a quart jar of Cabbage and Beet Kraut, and has added horseradish thereto, and this may be the end of your intrepid correspondent. I should have eaten some just so as not to be unarmed, but I can’t handle the stuff- I eat beets like once a year and kraut almost never. (Yeah, I know. I’m a squarehead from way back, but I just can’t handle kraut)

IN terms of

The currency it brings to a relationship, Breakfast in bed seems to be worth about two dozen roses. Especially when it’s a perfect omelette and black forest bacon.

Just sayin’

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