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Old June 29th 13, 10:40 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
Brent[_4_]
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On 2013-06-29, Geoff Welsh > wrote:
> Brent wrote:
>> On 2013-06-29, jim > wrote:
>>> On 06/28/2013 06:17 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>> On 6/28/2013 6:31 PM, JR wrote:
>>>>> So says a local TV commercial. What do they do with those junk cars?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One of my customers runs a plant which disassembles them, sending out
>>>> rail cars full of steel chunks (big as a fist, looks like black stones)
>>>> and of glass, copper, aluminum etc.
>>>>
>>>> No one cares what year or model, just the gross weight.
>>>>
>>>
>>> it makes the people that do it very rich. plug right into government
>>> [taxpayer] "environmental" subsidies, get paid to take old cars off the
>>> road, and get raw materials for [what are typically] their own [or part
>>> owned] metal smelting operations. that's ignoring the money they get
>>> from selling used car parts. it's an absolutely awesome cash cow.

>>
>> Usually the automobile recycling business is attacked by government. At
>> least it is around by me. NIMBY thing mostly. I don't recall any
>> environmental subsidies going to this 100+ year old industry besides the
>> ones like cash for clunkers were it gets it by collateral damage.
>>
>> Thus most such businesses are in old neighborhoods that are currently
>> quite poor. Where any business is a good business and it's been a
>> junkyard for decades. Even when big corporate operations want to expand
>> they go looking for who they can buy up rather than try to build a fresh
>> location. Thus some retail yards end up being bought up to become
>> insurance yards. (where 'totaled' cars go to be auctioned off to people
>> with the required state licenses)
>>

>
> There was a big problem here several years ago with permits. Nobody had
> one...so the broken-on-the-roadside cars kept getting tagged with the
> bright orange ABANDONED stickers by the police, but no one could come
> tow them away....becasue there was no "away" (reminded me of my side of
> the "put your toys away" argument I had as a five year old kid).
>
> Eventually someone swooped in with some kind of federal grant loan to
> get things going again.


That happened on maui a while back... no junk yards. Cars would be left
at the side of roads.

Then there was what happened to garbage collection in Cairo, Egypt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/wo...oink.html?_r=0
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/w...pagewanted=all

Government, breaking society's ability to function for thousands of
years.



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