Edited sentence: A pure automobile example of the broken window fallacy would be the government buying up new cars only to crush them.Another example would be the continued building of the US F-22 Raptor which was designed to fight an enemy that no longer exists.Others would argue this analogy of Cash for Clunkers is not entirely applicable.That which is unseen is the money that could have been spent to help fight an enemy that does exist.The Cash for Clunkers is more analogous to a business replacing older plant machinery or computers with newer and more efficient versions and discarding or recycling the older ones.The hypothetical shopkeeper's window does not have a carrying cost, continually consume precious and limited resources, or pollute the air as older low-mileage vehicles do.The pollution has a cost in human health and the extra oil consumed increases the net export of US wealth via the purchase of foreign oil.Therefore, replacing clunkers with newer, less polluting, and higher mileage vehicles can have a net increase in the village wealth once all the costs and benefits are summed up