Cash for clunkers anyone? How much waste did that create...turn in a 20 year old Civic and get a bunch of money to buy a brand new vehicle that probably gets worse MPG.
Perhaps what you say is part of the problem, though usually MPG improves with newer vehichle versions?
Change it over to "Cheap EV for clunkers", the government could/should cover most of the financials and it's a win for the car owner and the environment.
I think it could be argued that it's the government's job to fund things like this. Vision is all that's required!
A lot of older cars had excellent MPG figures but actually polluted more than current cars, especially diesels. Also, cars have largely gotten bigger and heavier, which hurts efficiency.
> Also, cars have largely gotten bigger and heavier
... In the US/Canada. This is for the most part a self-contained cultural problem.
SUVs/trucks numbers are a small percentage of the vehicles on the road elsewhere in the world, mostly because there is no space for them in the road/city infrastructure in most other places.
Change it over to "Cheap EV for clunkers", the government could/should cover most of the financials and it's a win for the car owner and the environment.
I think it could be argued that it's the government's job to fund things like this. Vision is all that's required!