Maria asks…
I need to get rid of my POS car?
I blew a head gasket in my 98 Ford Taurus. It’s going to cost more to fix it than it’s worth, so I need to just get rid of it. I live in Bucktown/Wicker Park area. Where can I take it?
I am getting a new car this weekend back in my hometown in Michigan- so cash for clunkers wouldn’t have worked for me… any chance a junker would take it for a couple hundred bucks?
CSC101 Customer Service answers:
The Most A Junkyard would give you is about 150 dollars your better off putting it on craigslist or something for about three hundred or so and see what you can get and work your way from there but many scrapyards will come and pick it up if you want it gone right away.
Ken asks…
How much will it cost GM (govt. owned) to clean up the mercury from all the “clunkers”?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090824/pl_usnw/gm_called_on_to_cover_mercury_recycling_costs_in_cash_for_clunkers_program__recovery_of_thousands_of_pounds_mercury_at_risk;_ylt=Au7VMPLugzFJByjy7AcgvqS4v0gC;_ylu=X3oDMTE2bzd0bmxyBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bi1yLWItbGVmdARzbGsDZXYtZ21jYWxsZWRv
According to industry estimates, 54% of all vehicles containing mercury are GM models. Environmentalists estimates that turned-in “clunker” vehicles alone contain over 1,000 pounds of mercury. GM’s failure to pay for switch recovery efforts means that over 50% of this mercury could potentially be released into the environment.
“With vehicles pouring into scrap yards under the Cash for Clunkers program, GM should pay its fair share,” said Michael Bender, director of the Vermont-based Mercury Policy Project. “GM’s lack of support leaves others in the lurch. It also detracts further from the financing necessary for the national program to operate effectively.”
Nationally, according to industry estimates, GM models now on the road contain more than 18 million mercury switches (39,000 pounds). With Cash for Clunkers adding many more mercury-containing vehicles to the end-of-life pool, it’s extremely unfortunate timing for a major supporter to be walking away from the table, say environmentalists.
Last month, a separate fund that helped pay financial incentives to auto dismantlers for turning in switches ran out of cash, so the program was already strapped for cash.
“GM should not hide behind a bankruptcy proceeding as an excuse for not meeting its on-going obligation to fund a vital program for keeping mercury out of the environment,” said Charles Griffith, with the Michigan-based Ecology Center. “Americans should demand that in return for the benefits it received under Cash for Clunkers, the company continue meeting its obligations to fund legacy mercury recovery costs from GM end-of-life vehicles.”
Mercury switches were used to operate hood and trunk convenience lights in vehicles made before 2004, when automakers stopped their use. Upwards of 100 million of these devices were used in vehicles. Unless they are removed first, the mercury from auto switches is released to the air when vehicles are recycled at steel mills. This source contributes to both local and global mercury pollution and contamination of fish.
CSC101 Customer Service answers:
While it is a problem, it is a bit of a ruse to focus on the clunkers program if one is worried about mercury and it’s effects. Over 40% of the mercury in the environment comes from coal plants. While 1000 pounds sounds like a lot, it is a drop in the bucket when compared to where most of the mercury in the environment comes from.
Further, in 2006, the EPA announced a national program to recover 80-90 percent of all available mercury switches from scrap automobiles. In February 2008, the Program collected its millionth mercury-containing automotive switch, which represents more than one ton of mercury that has been removed from the environment. The goal of the program is to collect 80 to 90 percent of available mercury switches by 2017. The National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program will not end if monetary incentives cease to be offered to automobile dismantlers recovering switches. The NVMSRP is scheduled to continue until 2017, based upon an estimate that all available mercury vehicle switches will have been collected by that year. Until then, mercury vehicle switches will continue to be recovered, recycled and buckets transported at no cost to participants, regardless of whether switch incentive payments are available.
Daniel asks…
Has Obama done it again? Another brilliant move without any thought.?
Why does Obam’s new interrogation board remind me of “closing gitmo” and “cash for clunkers“?
He has again jumped into the swimming hole without testing the water. Another brilliant example of Micro Management.
He wanted to close Gitmo. No fore thought as to what to do with or where to put the detainees. Now he is wanting to force these terrorist on the citizens of Michigan and they just plain do not want them.
Rushed into Cash for Clunkers without having the foresight to insure that the major amount of the money went for “American Made”. First he nationalized the automobile industry, then spent three billion dollars to stimulate the economies of South Korea and Japan.
Now for his latest stroke of genius. Has his attorney general agree to prosecute CIA operatives for doing their job to extract information from terrorist which does nothing but help keep our country safe from another terrorist attack such as 9-11. Usurps power and founds a super interogation group and oppppps, forgets to put anyone in charge. Even the worst of snakes can not bite without a head.
How can anyone even imagine this character managing out health care, he could not even buy a dog in four months. What are we going to do if Osama Bin Laden is arrested tomorrow. Ask him how he wants his lamb done and does he want his tea sweetened with honey or sugar? All of you Cheney haters, if Cheney is responsible for what you call breaking the law by “mistreating” these innocents, is not Osama responsible for the beheading of Amerians?
To firewoman and Global W:
Are you people incable of answering a question? Have you had a button installed so when pushed it automatically spews the same agenda. Try putting your brain into gear before opening your mouth.
CSC101 Customer Service answers:
Yes once again his communist agenda was thrust ahead of anything good for our country, the man is a tyrant in the making! His interrogation or goon squad will become his SS
Courtesy of Y!Answers