Comments on: Cash For Clunkers Results http://blog.pacific-recycling.com/2009/08/28/cash-for-clunkers-results/ Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:27:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nay http://blog.pacific-recycling.com/2009/08/28/cash-for-clunkers-results/comment-page-1/#comment-5900 Nay Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:35:23 +0000 http://blog.pacific-recycling.com/?p=287#comment-5900 I agree. As you can see by my sometimes incensed posts on this issue, my stand on Cash for Clunkers was that it was not going to be what the administration said it was. Government is not gonna help America; our only hope is the will of the American people themselves. I just pray that will hasn't been destroyed by apathy. I agree. As you can see by my sometimes incensed posts on this issue, my stand on Cash for Clunkers was that it was not going to be what the administration said it was.

Government is not gonna help America; our only hope is the will of the American people themselves. I just pray that will hasn’t been destroyed by apathy.

]]> By: mikew http://blog.pacific-recycling.com/2009/08/28/cash-for-clunkers-results/comment-page-1/#comment-5858 mikew Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:59:53 +0000 http://blog.pacific-recycling.com/?p=287#comment-5858 It seems to me that if a car had low enough trade value for cash for clunkers to be a good deal in the first place, that the car probably would not have been on the road much longer anyway. Was it really worth nearly $3 billion to speed up the natural process a little? Many of those people would have bought used cars (which are still out there) and perhaps many would have bought less efficient new cars than they did so there is some gain there. How do we measure overall success (failure) of the program? How much energy useage and pollution is involved in the manufacture of a new car vs driving a newer used car? The economic benifits have already been called into question here, so I won't go there. It seems to me that if a car had low enough trade value for cash for clunkers to be a good deal in the first place, that the car probably would not have been on the road much longer anyway. Was it really worth nearly $3 billion to speed up the natural process a little? Many of those people would have bought used cars (which are still out there) and perhaps many would have bought less efficient new cars than they did so there is some gain there. How do we measure overall success (failure) of the program? How much energy useage and pollution is involved in the manufacture of a new car vs driving a newer used car? The economic benifits have already been called into question here, so I won’t go there.

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