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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 06:38 AM Original message |
Mechanics ensure (clunker) trade-ins will never hit the road again |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 06:42 AM Response to Original message |
1. my husband told me this program would raise the price of used cars. |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 06:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I think your husband is wrong about it raising the price of other used cars |
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SmileyRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 06:46 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. this does not affect used car inventories. |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 06:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Given the cars being traded in, I think we are talking about the lower end of the used car market |
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Duckhunter935 (777 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 06:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. only thing that can not be used is the engine |
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abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. This is the key to the program |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
23. All the parts can be re-used *EXCEPT* the engines. (NT) |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 06:45 AM Response to Original message |
3. Isn't part of the point of the clunker program to get the gas guzzlers |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 06:50 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Yes, getting rid of gas guzzlers is part of it |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. i hope so, because some parts can be used on more than just the one model |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:57 AM Response to Original message |
9. Do all those vehicles get $4500 on trade-in? |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 08:24 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. They all get either $3500 or $4500 for the vehicle, toward a new car/truck |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:16 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. That's a rip-off then. |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Newsflash: economic stimulus uses future taxpayer dollars to stimulate moribund economy now |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. It is a classic Kensyian economic stimulus |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:50 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Exactly right. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. educate yourself. |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:43 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. As a taxpayer, I like it. Why? Because the avg increase in mileage from old to new is about 10mpg |
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mkultra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. thats right, Its a buyup of consumer "Toxic debt" |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
15. that sucks, I'd love to pick up a clunker truck for use around the homestead |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:48 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Well, given that less than a million cars, out of over sixty million on the road are being traded in |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:54 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. The number being destroyed is low, relatively |
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mkultra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
18. or parts for existing clunkers will be cheaper. |
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