'Cash for Refrigerators' Debuts in Fall. Really.

Real Clear Markets ^ | August 25, 2009 | Joe Walsh

[mewzilla]

Note to Jeffrey Immelt: Really helps to have low friends in high places, eh?

[mewzilla]

And on a related note...

Extort thy neighbor, or how to ruin a nation

[SandRat]

[TheZMan]

It’s not about the grid. It’s not about the environment.

It’s about control, power, and distribution of wealth.

[mewzilla]

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Alexis de Tocqueville

[Tax-chick]

They should not be allowed to call these programs “Cash for” Anything, unless they’re giving out cash. It’s a “limited-purpose voucher that will require you to spend more of your own money or take on debt.”

[ASA Vet]

[scooby321]

I wonder if the Zero Kool aid drinkers know they will get a 1099 as will the shocked Cash for Clunkers will.

I asked a dealer and he told me it was hidden in the fine print.

[mewzilla]

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Walt Kelly

Who needs al Qaeda?

[KeyLargo]

Will the new refrigerators come fully stocked with money?

[Sacajaweau]

A 1099 ????

[mewzilla]

Heck, we’re still trying to find out from our dealer whether our personal and/or financial info was put at risk by our car dealer’s participation in C4C. Dealer hasn’t been co-operative, so we’ve had to see a lawyer.

[BallyBill]

I'm holding out for “Cash for CRT Monitors”. Got me a pile of them.

[jblann1]

so when are we gonna see the YouTube videos of dealers running the old clunker fridge to the max with the door open in a hot room and cover the coils on the back, till the compressor pump burns up? “Whoa ho ho ho! that was soooo cool man!”
But then again this “Cash for...” isn’t anything new, remember back in the AWB days? “Cash for guns” a $100-150 for a gun “off the street”?
This whole thing is just sickening, shame on those people falling for the bait.

[BilLies]

The New York State utilities did the same thing in the late seventies and early eighties when oil prices were driving inflation. The programs were initiated (and monitored) at the behest of the state's politicians, its Public Service Commission and the state's Energy&Development Authority.

The program was a great success. I had a number of friends who were able to purchase a new, more energy efficient refrigerator for the kitchen while keeping the old one down in the basement to store beer.

[HangThemHigh]

So how much is my new garage refrigerator going to cost me?

[Graybeard58]

I have a refrigerator in the house and one in the garage, neither of which is old. As usual no "gimmes" for old graybeard.

All I ever wanted was a free pony anyway.

I found out a long time ago that I am the buyer of free ponies for others.

[Sacajaweau]

Efficient refrigerators have already been around for 20 years...and I doubt that the new ones are super duper efficient and produce a whopper of a utility savings.

[KeyLargo]