That said, I still can see no reason at all to destroy the engines. What's done is done, thankfully. When a C4C car is removed from the road, that vehicle will never run again under it's own power. If they plasma torched key structural chassis points (hopefully nothing saleable), or yanked out the VIN and blacklisted it, making it impossible to register, then so be it. Why fuck the junkyards and the guys who can't go buy a new car? I heard that the engine can be ~60% of the profit for a JY. Once the chassis/VIN is made impossible to register and return to the road, the total number of that type of car has then been permanently reduced by one.
C4C engines would be in better than typical shape, and their abundance would allow and encourage people to change out a worn, or fatally damaged engine for a fresher one on the cheap. Replacing clapped out engines would reduce pollution by a proportionally large degree. Destroying a supply of good engines is ineffective at pushing extra people into throwing down at the dealer, since it only makes it harder, but not impossible to source a replacement anyway.
And, on a final note, wasn't luring people into loans for new houses and cars they shouldn't have undertaken one of the main causes of the economic crash, anyways?
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