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Monday, August 10, 2009

Mercury pollution: Not the new GM's problem

So, this is the new GM.Now it's just the people's problem

"36 million mercury switches were used in trunk convenience lights and antilock brakes in vehicles built in the 1980s and 1990s. More than half of them are in GM vehicles built before 2000."

To combat potential mercury pollution - most significantly caused by GM - GM joined a partnership to help clean up their mess. However, the new General Motors is no longer responsible for this problem according to the AP, so the new GM has pulled out of this partnership.

Wow. The government, via taxpayers, puts tens of billions into GM. Then the government creates a cash for clunker program to help GM sell vehicles and reduce pollution, and now taxpayers will have to pick up the tab for recycling the mercury of these clunkers.

Labels: GM, pollution

posted by Dahcredyns at 4:09 PM

4 Comments:

Blogger Noz said...

Still think this POS company deserves to exist?

11:16 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thats nothing compared to all mercury that is going to be polluting the environment from all the CFC light bulbs that have been force on us by the liberal government.

4:03 AM  
Blogger Dahcredyns said...

i've definitely lost a lot of faith in GM.

7:59 AM  
Blogger Noz said...

ANON:

You're an idiot....the government doesn't throw away the used bulbs....YOU DO...what's the matter?

Your conservative HANDS OFF government not doing it's job by forcing you to dispose of your own crap properly and responsibly?

Oh yes that's right...you conservatives whine your stupid asses off about how government gets involved in everything yet you don't have the capability to be personally responsible enough to clean up after your own shit.

9:50 AM  

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