Automotive
Parts Remanufacturers Association
4460 Brookfield Corporate Drive, Suite
H, Chantilly VA 20151-1671 Phone:703-968-2772 Fax:703-968-2878
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APRA Joins
With SEMA in Opposing Federal "Cash for Clunkers" Program
Program is currently being considered for inclusion in economic stimulus
package
January 6, 2009
CHANTILLY, VA – The Automotive Parts Remanufacturers Association (APRA) has
issued a statement opposing any efforts to include a nationwide “Cash for
Clunkers” program in the economic stimulus package currently being considered in
Washington.
In its statement APRA President Bill Gager stated, “Cash for Clunkers would use
taxpayer dollars to purchase and crush older vehicles into blocks of scrap
metal, which will remove valuable cores from the market for remanufacturing and
will deprive the owners of older cars of an economical source of replacement
parts.”
“These clunker programs do not consider in their calculations the life cycle of
the remanufacturing process and the extension of product life that takes place.
Clunker legislation does more harm to the environment and is counterproductive
to the whole idea of repair, reuse, remanufacturing and recycling,” added Gager.
APRA is pleased to join with the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)
and other aftermarket associations in opposing this scrappage proposal and
encourages Congress to leave “Cash for Clunkers” out of the economic stimulus
package currently being considered.