Cash for clunkers is a bust

hotrodn93l · 07-31-2009, 06:56 AM

its suspended form the feds yesterday, guess all the Money got spent on bailouts for the big companies

news story said the turn out was more than expected

oilwell1415 · 07-31-2009, 12:34 PM

But from what I hear the EPA cooked the books to make cars ineligible after the fact, so they saved a little money there. I saw a story a day or two ago about a guy who bought a new car early in the month and turned in his clunker to get it. When the dealership applied for the $4500 it was denied by the gov't because the car didn't qualify. The EPA had changed their rating of the car from 18 mpg (eligible) to 19 mpg (ineligible) in the weeks since the purchase. The dealership told the guy he could keep the new car and pay the cost difference or bring the new car back and trade it in on his old one. Screwed no matter what.

hotrodn93l · 07-31-2009, 09:33 PM

wow that sucks

oilwell1415 · 08-01-2009, 12:05 PM

And now they've pitched another $2B at this. What a freakin' waste of our tax money.

maverick · 08-07-2009, 07:30 PM

I called a ford dealership today after driving by & noticing a lot of 'clunkers' that had been turned in. A red '95 F-150 caught my eye so i thought i'd take a look. Pretty decent shape for a truck of that age & at 155k miles. I called the dealership to ask what is happing to these 'clunkers' that get traded in, they told me that they are destroyed & thrown away...

oilwell1415 · 08-07-2009, 09:11 PM

That's right. Take a perfectly good vehicle, drain the oil (which has to be disposed of), fill it with silicate something or other, run it till it locks up, drag it to the dump. Vehicle will contaminate the planet for millions of years. Add to that the process of buiding a vehicle to replace it, which also produced pollution, and there is no way in hell this is an environmentally friendly process. It's nothing more than an under the table subsidy of the U.S. auto industry.

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07-31-2009, 12:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
oilwell1415 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Broken Arrow, OK, USA Posts: 1,979 View this user's gallery iTrader: 0 / 0%	But from what I hear the EPA cooked the books to make cars ineligible after the fact, so they saved a little money there. I saw a story a day or two ago about a guy who bought a new car early in the month and turned in his clunker to get it. When the dealership applied for the $4500 it was denied by the gov't because the car didn't qualify. The EPA had changed their rating of the car from 18 mpg (eligible) to 19 mpg (ineligible) in the weeks since the purchase. The dealership told the guy he could keep the new car and pay the cost difference or bring the new car back and trade it in on his old one. Screwed no matter what.

08-01-2009, 12:05 PM	#4 (permalink)
oilwell1415 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Broken Arrow, OK, USA Posts: 1,979 View this user's gallery iTrader: 0 / 0%	And now they've pitched another $2B at this. What a freakin' waste of our tax money.

08-07-2009, 07:30 PM	#5 (permalink)
maverick Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 3,734 View this user's gallery iTrader: 7 / 100%	I called a ford dealership today after driving by & noticing a lot of 'clunkers' that had been turned in. A red '95 F-150 caught my eye so i thought i'd take a look. Pretty decent shape for a truck of that age & at 155k miles. I called the dealership to ask what is happing to these 'clunkers' that get traded in, they told me that they are destroyed & thrown away...

08-07-2009, 09:11 PM	#6 (permalink)
oilwell1415 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Broken Arrow, OK, USA Posts: 1,979 View this user's gallery iTrader: 0 / 0%	That's right. Take a perfectly good vehicle, drain the oil (which has to be disposed of), fill it with silicate something or other, run it till it locks up, drag it to the dump. Vehicle will contaminate the planet for millions of years. Add to that the process of buiding a vehicle to replace it, which also produced pollution, and there is no way in hell this is an environmentally friendly process. It's nothing more than an under the table subsidy of the U.S. auto industry.