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https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/201...a-success/
More needs to be done, however, said Jaworski and Kailua-Kona resident Shirlee Shumway. Jaworski questions why the county's $680 disposal fee to the scrapyard is so high, compared to the $150-$190 she would pay if she did it herself.
Funny, that. Also humorous: the article doesn't say anything about where to report abandoned vehicles. The roads around me have several, at least one of which is tagged with HPD paperwork. Just have to figure out how to report them in writing (and get a receipt) so they can't claim "nobody told us".
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There's abandoned vehicles out here by South Point, at the boat ramp. I don't imagine they will ever, ever be removed. Nothing changes here in the Naalehu/Waiohinu area, I'm surprised there's actually any stores or people living here at all, considering how glacial the economy is here. The cars are annoying, but that's not the biggest problem. A metric **** ton of stuff washes up on our shores down here at South Point, plastic fragments, rope, plastic trash. Tons of it. It's always there. That's way more unsightly than 3 abandoned cars.
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Burned out car on South Gleenwood for 3 weeks now. Watch every school morning as school buses swerve across center line on blind hill! Big accident waiting to happen. Glad I don't have kids in school!
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There were four or five trashed vehicles lining the south end of Beach Road, but they magically disappeared last week. Not sure who to thank.
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Funny, that. Also humorous: the article doesn't say anything about where to report abandoned vehicles.
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A metric **** ton of stuff washes up on our shores down here at South Point, plastic fragments, rope, plastic trash. Tons of it. It's always there.
Kamilo is world famous as "the garbage beach." The currents perfectly send all the floating crap right there. There is a community clean up once or twice a year.
VICE on HBO did a bit about it some months back.
As for the cars near South Point, I bet it's lots of 4x4 type vehicles yes? The locally run "Green Sands taxi service" that's running there eats up vehicles fairly frequently. They are just gonna keep piling up.
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Thats fascinating, dobanion! makes sense too, given how much washes ashore. The cars at south point, there's a few 4v4's, one minivan, lol. I'm glad the locals have their taxi service, very few jobs down here, they charge 25 bucks a head and put 10 people in there at once. 250 dollars for that short trip will buy a lot of 4v4's over time!
i forgot, there's also the graveyard of dead rusted out cars in that parking lot on the way to green sands, it always looks like it's crowded even if you go there at 5 am when nobody is there, lol, because there's so many abandoned cars in that lot.
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Each new car sold in Hawaii should have an additional $300 "recycle" tax at time of sale. When the car is dead the county uses $200 to recycle it and $100 is given to the person who turns the vehicle in. People would be driving around, hunting abandoned vehicles. Nobody likes the idea of an extra tax but it's reflective of the real cost of our decisions and lifestyles. Somebody has to pay somehow. Junk cars in our roadways is a price we're paying right now.
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Nobody likes the idea of an extra tax
Peter, the concept is sound, but may a suggest a tweak or two so it’s more popular with voters? Make it a tax ONLY on rental cars, in effect making it appear the tourists will pay for it. Increase the fee to $500 so it will still cover all vehicles, including non-rental cars. Although this will increase the average cost of a used car from the retired rental fleet by $500, ignore that consequence of the program while stressing the $100 dollars used car owners will get back when they turn in the car. The skills taught by our Hawaii DOE math classes should help make this misdirection a great success.
“Does anyone in the audience have $500? Thank you. Now watch closely, as I turn it into ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS!”
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Each new car sold in Hawaii should have an additional $300 "recycle" tax at time of sale.
Each auto registration includes $12 towards disposal. I wonder where that money went?
