The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

I am all for more environmentally friendly cars but my problem is that when there are more incentives for people to buy more of anything, what do we do with the objects we have been using in the past? Landfill is such a huge problem that this consumption drive is ridiculous.

Buy LCD chirstmas lights! They're better for the environment! They take up less energy! You'll pay less money on your energy bill!
Well, what happens to all the old christmas lights?!?!

BMW is working toward making a car that can be completely recycled or biodegrable. That's a car that I'd be into buying - but only when my clunker truely TRUELY bites the dust.

Cars are generally a sufficiently big-ticket item (unless you're quite wealthy) that you wouldn't buy a new car just for the incentives. You might buy a *particular* car for the incentives, but you'd need to be pretty rich to look at the savings you get from parking ticket dismissals and decide that makes it worthwhile to buy a $20,000+ item before you need it.

PG - perhaps you are missing the message of my articles because I've noticed a slight attack/nitpicking at smaller details/the smaller picture, but this particular article is about how fugly those cars are and how moronic the dispute was.

And, I didn't think I had to spell it out for anyone, but I will: those cars are becoming a trend to the point that people are in fact purchasing them for the incentives, and the largest incentive of them all is the gas saving/environmental part of it, but the parking fee break will further people's decisions to buy the fugly thing.

While SmartCars are a distinct style of car (and thus perhaps distinctively "fugly"), some hybrids (such as mine) look exactly like any other car of the same type: a Honda Civic. But probably you can guess from my choice of vehicle that aesthetics aren't the most important aspect of a car for me.

People are purchasing the cars for the incentives at the time of deciding to purchase a new car, but Ada was worrying about the landfill problem that would stem from having lots of people dump their perfectly good cars in order to rush out and buy a new car when they normally wouldn't have bought a new car. I was pointing out that this was unlikely to occur except among the wealthy, who often have multiple vehicles anyway.

Which was my point from the beginning: people purchase for the incentives. Further, all it takes is a middle class earning to go out and purchase a car on a whim. I know because I'm working in that environment and when the vehicle had a minor malfunction, he junked it for a newer one rather than getting the problem fixed. Simple as that. There are an awful lot of people out there with wealth enough to do so.

If they have any style, however, they'll set their eyes on that awesome new Dodge Charger that's out there, or take me for a ride in their new Jag.