Scrappage – Cash for Your Old Car
There is a new buzzword in the motor industry – waste. Under this proposed scheme, consumers who own cars of more than nine years, would be able to take it to a recycling plant and in return receive a voucher for two thousand pounds of a new car and old, or even a year bought a dealer. Ideal for the automotive industry, great for vendors, ideal for dealers, ideal for recycling, ideal for the environment, ideal for everyone. Or not? These systems are already operating in several countries and in most cases, have significantly increased sales of new cars, boost their economies, helping to keep auto workers employed, and taking high-polluting vehicles off the road. At the hearing, it seems obvious to us not for the UK too. A Lord Mandelson – the man who has made more comebacks from Rocky – is reportedly in advanced talks to approve an agreement that would see £ 500 million to the scheme in the UK. If he knew that in reality only make other peoples cars. Most of our car industry went to the wall for years. Sad as the numbers are, the fact is that 78 percent of the cars produced in Britain are exported and 86 per cent of cars bought in Britain have been imported.  As scrapping plans in other countries have shown, almost all the drivers involved would spend their  £ 2,000 grant to small, highly fuel for cars, cars that do not occur only in the UK. In fact, the only cars that fall into this category are the Mini and Nissan Micra, which together account for four percent of the UK market. Significance of 96 per cent will go to subsidize the factories on foreign soil. In Germany sixty-five percent of vehicles purchased in scrapping its plan produced in German factories. This is closely replicated in France, with sixty percent of two of the vehicles produced in French factories.  The scrapping scheme undoubtedly help the dealers in the UK. Recently, however, discounts offered by dealers often exceeded  £ 2000 and that obviously has not kick started the car market. If introduced to dealers not only to return to the list of prices and loosen the two large? If  £ 7500 discount off a Land Rover can not get someone to trade their thunder, it is doubtful that an extra  £ 2000 will make a big difference.  Finally, we turn to the argument of "green", with inefficient and polluting vehicles off the road and replaced by shiny, new, highly fuel-efficient vehicles, sounds good until you look at the fact that even for vehicles more fuel efficient carbon cost to manufacture would outweigh the benefits. In fact take a car off the road after nine years seems to be an act of recklessness when it comes to the environment. Philip Gomm RAC Foundation has been quoted as saying: "Research shows that the optimal balance in age, from an environmental perspective, is about 18 years. We do not want to see any old vehicle being scrapped, regardless of their age, without fully assessing the impact of carbon emissions from the construction of a new one. Scrapping may be the way to get some of the most polluting vehicles from the road, but by no means a "one size fits all" solution. It would be ridiculous if I could scrap her nine-year-old Citroen Saxo for a £ 2000 rise to five liters of Volkswagen Touareg.  If the automobile industry is in favor and if the polls do not believe it is the UK public, but if you ask someone if they would like the £ 2000 of a new car without a doubt the answer will be yes – even if can not afford it. Is it breaking the solution? First we have to solve the exact problem. Is it selling cars? Is it the environment? Is polluting vehicles? Or is Mr Mandelson, the introduction of a populist policy to support a government in crisis? Time will tell.
