Money for Nothing

Re “Old-Car Owners Left in Lurch,” Feb. 28: I have a modest proposal. The environmentalists themselves should pony up the money by buying “smog-spewing old clunkers” and turning them into scrap metal, now that Gov. Gray Davis has eliminated that foolish state program.

Not likely. Only the government is stupid enough to pay $1,000 for cars worth less than $500.

Andrius V. Varnas

Redondo Beach