To crush perfectly good, 18 MPG cars, some with less than 100k miles on them is positively sinful. The cars have lots of utility left in them, and in a world with needy people this is such a waste. 40 miles south of us poor people are pushing around real clunkers, massive polluters and unsafe gas guzzlers. There would be a net gain to the environment, to human safety, and to consumer satisfaction if our government could have exerted a modicum or creativity and traded our “clunkers” for theirs.
