He signed into law the
Car Allowance Rebate System, known colloquially as "Cash for Clunkers" Obama on wikipedia.
Yep, and that produced new cars. That is not "destroying cars" since it incentivized people to spend money on cars that they would not have otherwise spent. Didn't you even read your source?:
"he
Car Allowance Rebate System (
CARS), colloquially known as "
cash for clunkers", was a $3
billion U.S. federal scrappage program intended to provide economic incentives to U.S. residents to purchase a new, more fuel-efficient vehicle when trading in a less fuel-efficient vehicle."
So old inefficient vehicles that polluted excessively were taken off the market and replaced with new ones. Are you not aware of AGW? Sooner or later, and it needs to be sooner, we will have to switch from gasoline powered cars. This was a stop gap program that kept Detroit alive and may have slightly delayed when we have to get rid of internal combustion engines.
You are looking at problems and solutions from a far too shallow viewpoint. When one only skims the surface of complex problems one is almost surely going to be wrong.