WARNING!!! PROPAGANDA!!!

[510rob]

Crush dirty old cars, Ottawa urged
Posted 9/12/2006

TORONTO (CP) - If Canadians are serious about reducing climate-change pollution, they should drive newer cars - and be prodded by the government to scrap their clunkers - says the country's best-known auto industry analyst.

"Replacing old vehicles with new vehicles should be the single most important agenda item for any policy maker hoping to positively impact the environment," declares Dennis DesRosiers, head of DesRosiers Automotive Consultants.

"Older vehicles are, by a large margin, the least fuel-efficient and highest-polluting road users," DesRosiers said in a commentary, noting that 53 per cent of Canada's passenger cars and 64 per cent of its light trucks currently survive 15 years of active ownership.

"The sooner they disappear, the sooner some of our environmental targets will be met."

In place of Canada's "piecemeal emissions programs," he cites Japan as a model, with its punitive taxes on vehicles Canadians would regard as barely used - with as little as 60,000 kilometres on the odometer.

"Japanese driving dynamics are very different from our own, so a 60,000-kilometre limit would be ludicrous, but suppose the bar were set around 180,000 to 200,000 kilometres," DesRosiers writes.

"A large portion of the country's out-of-tune engines would be removed from service, the new-vehicle market would receive a boost, and the used-vehicle market would still have enough headroom to operate with a degree of health."

The main result: "The vast majority of daily commuters would be forced into making ecologically sound transportation choices."



News from © The Canadian Press

[jason]

Looks to be more stupidity from our automotive analyst "friends". This fellow should be strung up with a rope to save the environment.

[Gaelen]

i have to say...some of my older cars i have had ran better than my parents newer cars. Its not the car its the idots that dont take good care of them.

[jason]

Gaelen, buy Bryon's 510, he's got it up for sale man!

[Zilla510]

that article won't change anybody's mind. not a lot of people can actually afford "newer cars", thats why they drive old ones. and yes he should be hung.

[Gaelen]

Gaelen, buy Bryon's 510, he's got it up for sale man!

trust me I was tempted at the trade he offered me
I just need to sell my other car first before i start buying more

[jason]

Do it, trades don't involve money and you still end up with the same amount of cars !

[caesarDX]

Gaelen, buy Bryon's 510, he's got it up for sale man!

Which one? Bronze?

[Gaelen]

HAHA
not really quite the same on value for the rally car though....he's asking 8 i'm asking 14

and no the rally car...i HIGHLY doubt he will ever rid of the bronze beast

[Byron510]

You're right, the Bronze isn't for sale... ever!
The rally car is still up for sale though - if anyone is interested, make an offer! Got another call fom Calgary on it though - must be really hard to find a 510 out there, it's the 3rd request from Calgary alone. Either that or there's so much oil money burning holes in peoples pockets that they are reliving their childhood dreams! Either way - I'll deliver = roadtrip!!
Byron

[caesarDX]

You're right, the Bronze isn't for sale... ever!

$25,000 ,$35,000? $45,000, $55,000, $65,000.........

[510rob]

how about for a million zillion gigatrillion dollars for the Bronze?

[Byron510]

OK, I give... but only for a million zillion gigatrillion dollars would I consider it, maybe.
Byron

[caesarDX]

INDECENT PROPOSAL

A Bronze 510, a 510 fanatic, a millionaire (role still vacant). A proposal.

Coming to theatres soon!

[510rob]

woah, overactive imagination!