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Obama, lawmakers agree on "cash-for-clunkers" bill [Your cash, Their clunker]
Reuters ^ | May 5, 2009 | Sandra Maler

Posted on 05/05/2009 9:41:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Wonder what the details are. I have a 1984 Chevy pickup w/ a blown head gasket, scrap value probably less than $1000. If .gov wants to give me $4500 for it, and I buy a foreign econo-box in return, I won't argue.

Of course, I'll be keeping my two CUCV's, the M35, and the Suburban...

41 posted on 05/05/2009 11:00:55 AM PDT by gieriscm (07 FFL / 02 SOT - www.extremefirepower.com)
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To: Zeppelin
Zep...

When California instituted Cash for Clunkers in the early 90's all sorts of "K"-Street full page adds occurred on Hemmings with newly formed Advocacy Groups to protect Classics.

You guessed it, the wrote the laws so that they were included, the law of unintended consequences.

New mind burrying your guns, you'll be burrying your Holley Spread Bores...

42 posted on 05/05/2009 11:01:37 AM PDT by taildragger (Palin / Mulally 2012)
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To: Lx

that’s my dream car! ‘69, 427, sidepipes...still havent decided b/w red or Le Mans blue...but i’m only 23 so i have a while to make up my mind. =P


43 posted on 05/05/2009 11:03:23 AM PDT by Zeppelin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I have a 1969 Power Wagon.
It has a flatbed with a PTO-driven hydraulic dump.
It hauls mostly firewood, gravel, leaves, and brush.
I won't trade it for anything.

I drive that truck at most 500 miles per year. How is replacing it with a new truck going to save carbon?

Yeah, I know. I'll just pull the plates and keep it on the farm.

44 posted on 05/05/2009 11:25:09 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (It's time to waterboard that teleprompter and find out what it knows.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have a 1982 MB 300SD and is our second car. It has close to 200,000 miles on it.I am retired and only drive it about a 1000 miles a year. I will keep it as long as it runs. Why should I get a new car unless they offer me enough to get a new car? The next 4 year are going to be very long and miserable and costly.


45 posted on 05/05/2009 11:33:14 AM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
a broader effort to fight climate change

Much like LBJs war on poverty, climate will win. Taxpayers will lose.

46 posted on 05/05/2009 11:47:08 AM PDT by lowbridge (It's not that liberals are ignorant, it's that they know so much that isn't so - Ronald Reagan)
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To: pepsionice

Any possibility you could post a link to the part about the 90%/10% stats? TIA.


47 posted on 05/05/2009 12:31:31 PM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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Rep. John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat and other lawmakers from automaking states want the climate change bill to include a provision encouraging owners of less fuel-efficient cars to trade them in for cars that use less gasoline.

48 posted on 05/05/2009 5:36:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7dVgjIDLE0

There’s already an Australian version of this ‘advertisment’ - unfortunately not on Youtube yet, but the Aussie car dealers are catching on...Zero is a car-saleman!


49 posted on 05/05/2009 5:54:07 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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50 posted on 05/06/2009 8:41:27 AM PDT by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

heh, spend a couple hundred bucks on an 80s pickup, take it to a “push, pull or drag” trade in sale, then add on the $4500 gov’t bonus. you could easily make $5,000-$6,000 on it.


51 posted on 05/06/2009 9:05:33 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (thank God for Chicago: makes Detroit look wholesome by comparison.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So, after Obama buys up all those gas guzzlers, he’ll ship them all to Mexico and sell them. He’ll be rich.


52 posted on 05/06/2009 9:08:22 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Zeppelin
Hope that is yours...!!
53 posted on 05/06/2009 9:26:52 AM PDT by Osage Orange (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. - Will Rodgers)
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To: absolootezer0

This kind of legislation has been proposed before. It’s called the “junk yard dog” law.

Once it becomes apparent that a junker is worth a pile a dough, the value of the junker increases. Markets have a way of outfoxing politicians, every time. Of course, the politicians don’t really care, they want to appear to be doing something, something preceived as catering to their supporters.


54 posted on 05/06/2009 10:17:31 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
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