Automobiles Filling Up Junk Yards and Landfills

We see run-out, decaying, junky cars in front yards, inevery small town serviced or within 100 miles of a
fields, tow yards, auto auctions back yards, junk yardsWal-Mart. In other words every where in every small
and dump areas set aside for this purpose. Hawaii, thetown. Starting in January of 2007 all European Cars
Big Island we saw areas where the cars were justsold will be the responsibility of the manufacturer no
piled up. Well on an island it is a big problem becausematter how long the vehicle is in service.If a new Ford
as population expands so do the cars and if peopleMini-van is in a crash after only 2 months on the road it
buy new cars what about all the old ones? Well theywill be the Ford's responsibility. If it is on the road for 40
just pile up and then what do you do? It costs moneyyears and then junked it will be Ford's problem. Sounds
to ship cars off the island, so you trade in your old cara bit of a problem to me like our under funded
and let the dealership deal with it, but he doesn't want itpensions in this country of which the Big three are
either.We have seen in front yards of mobile homesprobably a good example of a serious problem with
years of junked cars rusting away in GA, AL, LA, MS,blue chip companies. Scary thought. You see as
SC. We are talking total junk, not just undrivable butcountries become more socialist the consumer will not
neighborhood rodents and varmints living in them. I canbe responsible for anything.Right now 75% of vehicles
remember as a kid the local cities would have junkin the EU are ELV'ed they wish to increase this to
days where they would go tot he canyons and hit the85% by 2006 a noble cause. 95% by 2015. But we
streets to pickup abandoned vehicles and take themknow this is absolutely the wrong way to do this after
to a metal recycler or crusher. CA had aall the State of CA set and dictated a timeline for
CRV-California Redemption value so you could getelectric vehicles and that did not work, today in the
money for the metal in aluminum cans, old cars orBusiness News GM announced it was completely
plastic containers. Each year in this country vehiclescutting the plug on all electric vehicles for the newer
are recycled, crushed, sent to the middle east intechnology of Fuel Cell. And pursuing the Fuel Cell
containers and of course recently in the last six yearsdevelopment project with UPD. Meanwhile with all the
we have had a big push to donate to a church orEPA deadlines un-met and all the passed costs to
synagogue or non-profit. Good idea, I can rememberbusinesses by light, Medium and Heavy duty truck
making money for one non-profit group allowing peoplemanufacturers, FedEx's Fred Smith put out a challenge
to smash a baseball bat for $1.00 per hit, with athat he wanted 50% more fuel efficient units with 90%
guaranteed uncorked bat. But suspension if you hit theless emissions. Apparently these do-gooders do not
safety glass. Later when OSHA standards came outunderstand entrepreneurship otherwise they would be
as Senior Class President of the HS we startedsolving the world's problems by creating not
wearing goggles when we allowed the people toaccusing.Renault adopted a plan on their own called
smash the car. Then a friend whose dad owned aLEM-Life-Cycle Management and found 13 key
tow company took it to Pick-Your-Part Junk Yard invendors to achieve this, a much better and well
the Valley, today totally wired with every make andorganized plan this was back in 1999. They made all
model and part listed on the Internet and most hard tocomponents recyclable, well 90% including the plastics
find stuff on Ebay and all the junk yards are alland other materials for their top selling cars; Laguna II,
interconnected on a trunk repeater Motorola RadioMid Size Panel Vans (you have seen them in cops
System. The junk yard business has really progressedand robber movies in France chasing James Bond),
over the years.America has a love for the automobileClio II and the Val Satis. Excellent achievement for the
and many of the old cars are fixed up. About aFrench Car Company. Similar to the 90% of their
decade ago you may recall a program where oilrecycled story about the Oil for Arms Program with
companies in some states could buy old cars and getIraq. Did I say Arms, no no FOOD, we we Food, yes
them off the streets and trade for pollution credits, offood, silly me. Other ideas of the ELV program is to
which El Paso and Enron both enjoyed trading. Enronuse easy to dis-assemble parts, like what Dell is doing
traded everything from Lumber futures and pollution towith computer trade-ins, yes Michael is always leading
energy and just about anything consumable that theedge, he deserves an award. see when you take
Boys in Chicago had not yet created the market for. Ifapart computers especially old ones they have gold
it is not bolted to the floor and contracts were drawnplated components on the circuit boards and
for future use, you can bet it was on the potential listconnections. Dell only charges $15.00 to recycle and
to be traded. Bandwidth, oil pipeline capacity, water youthey get at least $8-22 in gold out of each one. Once
name it. Commoditizing the world has advantages andapart they can be 67% recycled. The EU wants
this is one way to control the junk and costscertain things to no longer be used in the
associated. This has always been a free enterprisemanufacturing of cars, such as mercury, hexavalent
theme to reduce pollution here in the US.In thechromium, cadium and lead. Most US Manufacturers
European Union 7.3 million cars per year are ELV'ed orhave already done this completely and the rest will
ELV Treated, although there are 11 million total sent tosoon be completed. Smaller companies such as MG
the graveyard, furnace, junk yard or recycle crushers,Rover which use to produce millions of cars now only
but first plastics and other items are taken apart. In thesells 200,000 per year in the UK, the UK likes the idea
US we just crush the crap out of them and deal withand are up with the compliance anyway seeing as
the entire pancake. Let's face it this is a good start.they agree since they are on an island. But you can
Problem is that each Country in the EU has differentalways drive the cars to Europe in the Chunnel and
guidlines, these countries can never make up their mind.they do not want the reciprocate, the UK says we are
For instance the debt borrowing of the Euro innot a junk yard. UK has it's own plan called:
Germany and France and the rest of the countriesACORD-Automotive Consortium on Recycling and
having to pay later for the hamburger today.In the USDisposal. They are proposing a cash incentive for
we have the United States, although often act like theturning in a vehicle, the Economist and the Futurists
United Countries although we are not much better ashave both had articles on this thought and it is similar to
in almost every industry we have a different set ofthe Oil Companies paying to get off the road those
laws. Even smaller states with little population basescars which would not run on Unleaded fuels and
have conflicting laws, states such as VT, ID, WY, MT,needed the lead additive. People were paid to dispose,
NM, NH, RI, WV, IA, NE, ND, SD. States like CA, OR,in this case though people are paid to dispose properly
WA, MA act like socialist countries and obvious areand the UK would let the manufacturers off the hook
paying for it now. Beware the socialists in their goal toand let the owner be responsible after all they own the
make all things equal, they can ruin anything, ask Plato.car and there is no telling how many owners a car in
The problem being making non-linear decisions for theEurope may have had during its life before it became
best of the country is nearly impossible, for us to comean end of life vehicle like Logan in Logan's Run and
to terms of our leadership role in the Americas wehad to be renewed.The UK's Motor Vehicle
have a lot to be desired on many a front.We can doDismantlers Association agreed that the owner would
better than this, but we fight over the means, why?be given the $75.00 equivalent in pounds as an
There can be no excuse. No wonder we cannotincentive. Probably also would need to be based on
come up with solutions to issues like the junkedinflation and the CPI-Consumer Price Index you know
vehicles, which leak all kinds of things when they rot inthe Brits in their need to be exact, they are all
fields and bleed iron oxides, heavy metals asbestos,wannabe economists. Failure to properly dispose and
and oil, fuel (turns to varnish), brake fluids, radiator fluidsrenew registration on the vehicle would mean that the
and obviously leach into the ground water pf the localfine penalty would be issued to their drivers license,
farm and cause all kinds of cancers and problems withthey are more connected there. But the problem is
kidneys. There are issues. But also we see old farminconsistencies for instance Greece had no shredding
implements and other equipment junked out back. Yousites, while Germany has 42, Italy 16, France 42 and in
can see this on every back highway in America andthe UK 37 total.