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http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,618322,00.html
They write, that the US-government had such plans before, but the lobbyist's group SEMA had reached, that they were cancelled.
Now President Obama will start it again. Of the 250 million cars in the USA are 30% older than 15 years. So 75 millon cars shall be worth to crush.
The US-plan is a bit different than the German one (here you get 2500 € for cars, vans and campmobiles older than 9 years). The US-plan is meant for cars with have a fuel consumtion of more than 18 mpg (for Europeans: more than 13 liters on 100 km).
The goventment-paid bonus shall shall be between 2500 and 4500 $. A politician of the Democrats, Betty Sutton suggests a bonus of 5000 $, when you buy a North American made car.
There is such a bonus-system still active in Texas (but only in the areas of Houston, Dallas and Austin). There you get up to 3500 $ for wrecking an older car - but the problem is, that nearly all of these people are buying used cars from this money.
O.K., it's a problem of Texas, how they made their rules.
So you US-guys over here, perhaps soon you can see overfilled junkyards and shredder-machines, who are working day and night - as we Germans right now (and in the early 90ies after the GDR-collapsing) and the French some years before.
They write, that the US-government had such plans before, but the lobbyist's group SEMA had reached, that they were cancelled.
Now President Obama will start it again. Of the 250 million cars in the USA are 30% older than 15 years. So 75 millon cars shall be worth to crush.
The US-plan is a bit different than the German one (here you get 2500 € for cars, vans and campmobiles older than 9 years). The US-plan is meant for cars with have a fuel consumtion of more than 18 mpg (for Europeans: more than 13 liters on 100 km).
The goventment-paid bonus shall shall be between 2500 and 4500 $. A politician of the Democrats, Betty Sutton suggests a bonus of 5000 $, when you buy a North American made car.
There is such a bonus-system still active in Texas (but only in the areas of Houston, Dallas and Austin). There you get up to 3500 $ for wrecking an older car - but the problem is, that nearly all of these people are buying used cars from this money.
O.K., it's a problem of Texas, how they made their rules.
So you US-guys over here, perhaps soon you can see overfilled junkyards and shredder-machines, who are working day and night - as we Germans right now (and in the early 90ies after the GDR-collapsing) and the French some years before.