No Pollution Solution

The state was paying vehicle owners $1,000 to scrap old, high-polluting cars to help reduce pollution. Your Feb. 28 article discussing the demise of this program cited a motorist who applied for the $1,000 to scrap a vehicle that is not running and that he does not intend to repair. Since this car is creating no pollution, why would he expect a program designed to reduce pollution to pay him to scrap it? And why use his situation to illustrate the impact of the program’s demise? Using this logic, there must be thousands of cars in junkyards that also have been affected by the program’s demise.

Gerald Swider

Sherman Oaks