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Nothing on autotrader.com, craigslist, or on eBay cars?
I looked into the clunker thing, but realized I'd have to buy a new car to qualify for the cash-4-clunkers thing. Unless I misunderstood something...
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Duh! Ya think?!
I looked at it, but my 2001 has a trade-in value of over $6K (and my wife's car doesn't qualify), not that I'd go for it anyway. Both are still quite reliable transportation.
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Hey, I wonder how many green jobs that creates...?
Great stimulus package.
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...driving up the price on those that are left.
Let's not forget cars that might otherwise be donated to charity.
Wanna guess? I wonder how many jobs it's going to create for lawyers, trying to get the money out of Washington?
Did you expect otherwise?
And some unintended consequences:
Now imagine these bungling amateurs trying to do something important, like running a health care system.
John
Well, aren't they doing great with the Post Office and the DMV?
;-) Rich
"Limited supplies have driven up the cost of a new car to near or even above sticker prices, negating the advantage of the program.
'The $4,500 might seem like a great deal. But if you pay $2,000 over sticker for a car that normally sells for $2,000 under sticker, it's no longer a great deal,' said Jesse Toprak, vice president of industry trends and insights for car pricing tracker True Car.com."
Cool.
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-- Cheers, James Arthur
The dealers are mostly pocketing the money... if they can ever collect it.
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Moron. The DMV is operated by state and local government, not federal.
-- You can\'t have a sense of humor, if you have no sense!
The really insane bit occurs in the UK, as usual. Since 86% of our cars are imported we end up mostly supporting other nations car industries
-- Dirk http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party http://www.onetribe.me.uk/wordpress/?cat=5 - Our podcasts on weird stuff
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