clunkers program done already?

[Smiling JOe]

Why not just pay everyone $4500 to move 40% closer to their jobs? It would have similar effects on fuel demand. Oh, wait, that wouldn't put money in the pockets of the automakers and their lobbyists.

Here is another idea, Honda Metro scooters cost around $1900 each, new, and they get somewhere around 50-100 miles per gallon, why not give everyone a Honda Metro, first come, first serve, as long as they last? People would still be able to keep their grocery getter, but would be able to increase fuel efficiency by more than their current upgrades in this clunker of a program.

 

[BeachSiO2]

Last "working day" on the Hill and they are expected to approve the nomination of SC Sotomayor and CARS (aka Cash for Clunkers). There are not enough votes to filibuster either action.

 

[sunspotbaby]

I just cannot get over the fact that they are destroying perfectly good cars. I would love to get rid of my BAC and get something newer, but I can't afford car payments and full coverage insurance and I know it. I saw a sweet little volvo being blown up. If the government really wanted to help the poor, some of these cars would be resold and I could still be in a newer, more fuel efficient car.

 

[ChillPill]

Wait until you see how much those who drive older cars will have to pay in taxes, registration fees, Inspections, and government mandated car modifications to allow us to continue to drive them will be. The punishment is coming, take a look down that road.

 

[hnooe]

Gasoline is sooo 1990's.

 

[Linda]

Why not just pay everyone $4500 to move 40% closer to their jobs? It would have similar effects on fuel demand. Oh, wait, that wouldn't put money in the pockets of the automakers and their lobbyists.

Here is another idea, Honda Metro scooters cost around $1900 each, new, and they get somewhere around 50-100 miles per gallon, why not give everyone a Honda Metro, first come, first serve, as long as they last? People would still be able to keep their grocery getter, but would be able to increase fuel efficiency by more than their current upgrades in this clunker of a program.

or closer to Sowal - most of my gas consumption is spent driving to Sowal and back

 

[hnooe]

Wait until you see how much those who drive older cars will have to pay in taxes, registration fees, Inspections, and government mandated car modifications to allow us to continue to drive them will be. The punishment is coming, take a look down that road.

If it is like added on sales tax to cigs. or bad, fattening foods, I say tax baby, tax. Some Americans don't like being told what to do to improve their lives or increase the efficency of the economy, some need a little coaxing.

 

[sunspotbaby]

If it is like added on sales tax to cigs. or bad, fattening foods, I say tax baby, tax. Some Americans don't like being told what to do to improve their lives or increase the efficency of the economy, some need a little coaxing.

This is the land of the free. That "tax baby tax" is exactly what will put more middle class people in the welfare line, which, I think, is where our government might like to see us who are just eeking by in the current "efficient economy" .

Then we can all sing...."The CHANGE has come, we're under their thumb" ala Stones.

People like you scare the fn crap out of me.

 

[beachmouse]

Saw a news blurb the other day that a lot of state governments were loving the program because it was indeed helping to prop up sales tax revenues, which had been significantly down this year.

 

[poppy]

I just cannot get over the fact that they are destroying perfectly good cars. I would love to get rid of my BAC and get something newer, but I can't afford car payments and full coverage insurance and I know it. I saw a sweet little volvo being blown up. If the government really wanted to help the poor, some of these cars would be resold and I could still be in a newer, more fuel efficient car.

This on the same line of thought I had. Take the traded in clunkers and sort out the better ones, then allow the those without the resources to trade their clunkier clunkers for only a small transaction fee. This would really get the pollution spewing vehicles off the road and provide a safer auto for the less fortunate.