Re: More unobtainium

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.pl> wrote:

>>A number of manufacturers have been
>>actively lobbying governments and the EC for some time to introduce
>>mandatory scrapping of old vehicles, often trying to camouflage them behind
>>the 'old vehicles are high polluters' argument.

>Fortunately, I don't think it would be possible to pass a law that would
>basically allow to forcefully take one's posession and destroy it. Or we
>should rename the EC to "Union of Soviet Republics of Europe"

I think the same legislation is in place in Japan, where there's something
like an extremely high price to pay if you want to keep a car older than
_three_ years on the road. The result is heaps of basically fine cars that
are scrapped. That's why in RHD countries there's a steady stream of used
cars coming in from Japan.

Tom