Cash For Clunkers Options

[superstitious]

I've been hearing a lot of buzz on this lately, even though this isn't exactly a new news item.

For those of you who are well read on the subject, what do you think? The concept of trading a vehicle in for a more fuel efficient vehicle makes sense, but is the price of a pretty expensive bill worth it? How acceptable do you find destroying working vehicles for an up to $4,500 voucher and better fuel efficiency? Is this the best economical decision for the average consumer? How do you think car sales will be affected? Obviously sales will increase, but will funds run out too quickly for the increase in sales to last?

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[brooklyneast05]

in a way i think this is good becasue it's adding a boost to the auto industry. it's obviously popular or else they wouldn't have signed and extension to give more money to this program. so on those grounds, i guess it's successful. getting these gas guzzlers off the road is a good thing.


what really irritates me about this is that it's sorta just example of rewarding people who made shitty decisions in the first place. they chose to buy a car that didn't get good gas mileage, and now we get to pay 4,500 bucks for their mistake to go buy a new one. although yeah i realize that what's done is done and this is just water under the bridge anyway so we might as well get over it and try to boost sales.

[illriginal]

what really irritates me about this is that it's sorta just example of rewarding people who made shitty decisions in the first place. they chose to buy a car that didn't get good gas mileage, and now we get to pay 4,500 bucks for their mistake to go buy a new one. although yeah i realize that what's done is done and this is just water under the bridge anyway so we might as well get over it and try to boost sales.

I didn't bother to get into the details of how that works. But are you claiming that Americans will be taxed or in other words made to pay for other people's new cars via this program?

[superstitious]

I didn't bother to get into the details of how that works. But are you claiming that Americans will be taxed or in other words made to pay for other people's new cars via this program?

Technically our tax dollars are, in part, funding the program.

I don't know. I haven't seen enough research to fully formulate an opinion regarding increased fuel efficiency and how much of a difference it will actually make. I believe that was supposed to be one of the major selling points. I also think that the funds are going to run out before the economy as a whole sees any significant changes. Sure, bit by bit helps, but this is pretty costly bill, in my opinion.

I can't remember which NPR correspondent I was listening to, but whoever it was, they were interviewing someone who stated that part of the reason this bill had so much positive feedback was because it was pretty much the only thing congress agreed upon.