It seems he would rather spend over 23 million dollars to remove cars than a few hundred thousand. Well, of course, because the cheap company is from Texas, and Bush is from Texas, and, uh...BIG OIL! HALLIBURTON!!! LIE AFTER LIE AFTER LIE! Oh my, check out the story gems from
KATC.com:
A Texas company says it offered to pay this city to take tens of thousands of flooded cars off the streets and Mayor Ray Nagin refused the offer.
K and L Auto Crushers of Tyler, Texas, a major car crushing company, offered in October to rid the city of its flooded cars and pay $100 per flooded car, said K and L's Dan Simpson.
The city held back because it was apparently concerned that it did not have the legal right to remove the abandoned cars, Simpson said.
On Sunday, Nagin's press office, most of whom had traveled with him to Atlanta for a mayoral forum, did not immediately respond to an e-mail request seeking comment on K and L's offer.
But the Nagin administration is working on a contract to rid the cityscape of the cars at a cost of $23 million over another six months.
Hurricane Katrina turned New Orleans into an auto junkyard and the flooded cars are still everywhere. With an estimated 50,000 vehicles on the street in October, the city would have netted $5 million if the K and L offer had panned out.
The number of junkers on city streets has fallen since then to somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000, as insurance companies remove cars they've totaled out.
