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We Buy Junk Cars
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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