Government Under Big Pressure to extend Scrappage Scheme

Due to the government’s scrappage scheme, better than expected sales of new cars have now been sparked. This has led to growing pressure from the public to extend the scrappage allowance scheme. According to some figures that were released by the Society of Motor Manufacturing and Trades, new car registrations have actually increase by 2.4 percent in July. This is the first growth in new car sales in over 15 months.

The Automobile Association now suggests that this scrappage scheme did, not only help get drivers to invest in green transportation, but it also helped to boost the struggling economy. Although it is very important to places like the UK to decrease carbon emissions, it is also important to turn around the sluggish economy.

The Automobile Association went on to say that governments elsewhere have already extended such schemes because of the positive impact on both helping to get drivers into cleaner cars and helping the economy. Thus, this is a program that goes above getting people to drive cleaner, safer, more modern cars. Although the scrappage scheme has already been very helpful, there are concerns that the money for the scheme may run out very soon.

After the success of America’s version of the scrappage scheme, which is called Cash for Clunkers, the former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, proposed a further plan for the initiative at the National Clean energy Summit held in Las Vegas last Monday. The former president went on to suggest that the scheme should be adopted in a way to boost the sales of green transport, thus, helping to reduce the carbon footprint.