The program known as “Cash for Clunkers” ran for two months last summer and accounted for government-subsidized trade-ins on nearly 700,000 new-car sales at a cost to taxpayers of $2.9 billion. Sure, the new cars were, on average, 58 percent more fuel efficient, but we’re more concerned with how many Porsches were destroyed (11) and how many original Ford Taurus SHOs had sodium silicate poured into their Yamaha-built V-6s (2).
