A car wreck of a green scheme

Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun (Australia)
"An utterly absurd scheme that Julia Gillard must wish she’d never promised, but dares not yet scrap:

JULIA Gillard’s cash-for-clunkers proposal would cost 15 times more than an emissions trading scheme to reduce carbon pollution.And no research has been conducted on the fallout on used car dealers from the vehicle buyback policy.Bureaucrats charged with administering the Cleaner Car Rebate scheme have confirmed that compliance to ensure vehicles were scrapped was a “major concern” overseas. "