Robbing an Environmental Peter to Pay a Stimulus Paul: CFC's funding stream
Many concerned over peak oil, global warming, and creating a sustainable future are justifiably concerned over the great attention given to Cash For Clunkers / the CARS Progam, correctly stating that...
View ArticleThe Disintegration of the Republican Party
The Republican Party is disintegrating in front of our eyes. The latest Gallup Poll has them leading in party identification in six states. Six! They're tied in two. That means they're trailing in 42...
View ArticleCash for Clunkers - Perhaps the Most Stimulative $3 Billion in History!!!
According to new estimates by Bloomberg, CFC could add 0.5% to GDP numbers on a $3 Billion dollar Federal Government investment. So leave out all the other positives about the bill, less oil imports,...
View ArticleBREAKING: "Cash for Clunkers passes Senate: 60 to 37!
"Cash for Clunkers just passed the Senate: 60 to 37. Obama is expected to sign the legislation into law tonight so that the $2 billion will be ready for the weekend for car...
View ArticleRandom observations, not quite a rant
As the health care debate drags on over the congressional recess, and the organized antis use their massive propaganda machine to attempt to stifle free speech of the majority of Americans who...
View ArticleClunkers and your tax dollar (with poll)
I recently traded in my 1996 Ford Explorer for a 2009 Toyota Prius. While most of my friends and colleagues were happy and supportive of my decision and good fortune, one of them became miffed when...
View ArticleWeekly Mulch: More Cash for Clunkers
By Raquel Brown, TMC MediaWire BloggerThe government-sponsored Car Allowance Rebate System, commonly known as "Cash for Clunkers," burned through $1 billion of funding within a week. Last night, the...
View ArticleCash for Clunkers, a video odyssey
Congress has passed and President Obama signed into law a bill with $2 billion in additional funding for the CARS or Cash for Clunkers program. My roommate and I took advantage of the program so I...
View ArticleSet Up a Long-Term 'Cash for Clunkers' Program
By the time August is over, the administration may very well have gotten 750,000 gas guzzlers off the road while injecting some new life into an auto industry of which portions verged on collapse just...
View ArticleConsidered Forthwith: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Welcome to the 19th installment of "Considered Forthwith."This weekly series looks at the various committees in the House and the Senate. Committees are the workshops of our democracy. This is where...
View ArticleWill CARS really help the environment? (Updated)
Meteor Blades posted a story on Cash for Clunkers, suggesting that we make it long term. There's a big plea for environmental friendliness there, and I truly appreciate that sentiment.The problem is a...
View Article"Is it worth $2000 to the country to increase the MPG of one vehicle by say...
This is a question that came into my inbox amid an exchange about the CARS Program: Is it worth $2000 to the country to increase the MPG of one vehicle by say 10 mpg? Of course, that is a stove piped...
View ArticleWhere are the Cash for Clunkers Protests? (Update)
Socialized car buying? Awesome! Where are the conservatives when you need them?
View ArticleCar Dealers Abusing Cash For Clunkers?
Allow me to share my story of searching for a new Prius as an indicator that car dealers are abusing Cash For Clunkers.
View ArticleHow to get a good deal when buying a car!
Or, as otherwise known as: I'm fried on health care, need a small breather and my comment on another thread sparked what I think might be a fun diary!So then, if you've purchased a vehicle at or very...
View ArticleThe real failure of Cash for Clunkers
Since the program first made news, I've wondered why it was limited to "clunkers" 25 years old or less. Now, I've learned why.
View ArticleThe Winger Line on Cash for Clunkers
So my mom has been wanting a new car for a while. Being a teacher in Florida and having just put one son through college (me) and my brother going into his junior year at FSU, she's been trying to wait...
View ArticleBob says Obama is trying to start a class war
My friend Bob came to me today with a question I couldn't answer.Firstly, let me say that Bob is not a political animal. Truth be told, he could care less about politics. Just let him have his six...
View ArticleUpdate x3: Clunkers program under attack by AP
Before I begin, let me say this: Anyone who tries to claim I'm a "concern troll" or "astroturfing" had better check my diary and comment history (as well as my UID) first.Having gotten that out of the...
View ArticleCash for Clunkers over Monday - Trans. Secy. [Updated with Appliance rebates...
I've been watching other things on the site, so if this has been reported before, I'll delete.The Cash for Clunkers program will be finished Monday.Politico says: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood...
View Article'Cash for Clunkers' Ends Monday
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced that the Car Allowance Rebate System, colloquially known as "cash for clunkers," will end its month-long run Monday, well before its scheduled ending...
View ArticleDealers have stopped doing Cash for Clunkers already?
This is not much of a diary, but I have to ask if anyone else is experiencing this same thing.I've been contemplating doing a Cash for Clunkers deal, and when I heard that the Transportation Dept was...
View ArticleRebutting Cato on Cash for Clunkers
This morning in the UK on BBC Radio 4, we were treated to the views of Chris Edwards of the Cato Foundation on the Cash for Clunkers scheme. He said something that seemed to me to be fundamentally...
View Article"Delayed" Clunker Payments
I listen to "The Morning Briefing" on XM each morning as I drive to work. This morning, they were interviewing Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, and he was complaining about how long it was taking to get...
View ArticleCashing In Our Clunker
Probably the most amazing result of the federal "Cash For Clunkers" program is that it convinced my husband to purchase his first new car in 15 years. Since new cars depreciate the moment you drive...
View ArticleCash-for-Clunkers Will Save America $492M And 1.7M Metric Tons Of CO2. And...
Given that the Cash-for-Clunker program ended yesterday, I started wondering how much it actually lived up to its promise (A Reminder Why Cash-for-Clunkers Is Such A Brilliant Idea and A Threefer:...
View ArticleCash-for-Clunkers Update: $543M And 1.8M Metric Tons Of CO2 Saved
The final numbers have been released and the Clunker program has done even better that I initially reported (here and here). Continue to the numbers ...
View ArticleCash for Clunkers - Who Benefits...
The government’s "cash for clunkers" program, which offers credits between $3,500 and $4,500 to those disposing of gas-guzzling vehicles and buying new, more fuel-efficient cars, is bolstering auto...
View ArticleCash for Clunkers Failed, but Ended the Recession
We now have the seasonally adjusted annual rate of auto sales (saar) for August and it shows that cash for clunkers (c4c) was likely a big failure. This failure, however, won't prevent it from ending...
View ArticleWas Cash for Clunkers Really Worth It?
Cash for Clunkers was certainly a popular program and was certainly more "stimulating" than the bailouts. The question is, was it really worth it? From an environmental and/or an economic standpoint?I...
View ArticleWSJ: Eh.. The Stimulus is Working
The GOP and the Media derided the 787 billion Economic Stimulus as a failure before it was even passed. They never gave it a chance, ever. The WSJ particularly wrote countless Op-ed's and editorials...
View ArticleCash for Commerce Program would create many jobs
As the job market sinks and the number of unemployed continues to rise, it is time for the administration to consider a Cash for Commerce Program. It would operate with a similar methodology as Cash...
View ArticleExtending the new home buyer tax credit - stupid idea.
Extending the new home buyer tax credit is a stupid idea (bluntness intended).Here's what's up:Isakson’s legislation would extend the program through the end of 2010, almost double the credit to...
View ArticleThe end of Cash-For-Clunkers teaches a dark lesson for housing
The federal government cash for clunkers program is over, and as the pessimists predicted, the program merely borrowed sales from the future rather than generated sustainable growth. September’s...
View ArticleWeekly Audit: We Need a 'People's Bailout'
By Zach Carter, Media Consortium BloggerThe economic free-fall is finally slowing down, although nobody expects the recovery to be very pleasant. Job losses and foreclosures are expected to increase...
View ArticleCash for Clunkers, the Unacknowledged Success
On November 4, a USA today headline blared "AP: AP: 'Cash for clunkers' = cash for big new pickups"This kind of story has been indicative of the reporting on Cash for Clunkers-- unrealistically...
View ArticleSNL Takes on President Obama's Economic Policy
Fred Armisen's impression still blows, but the tone of the sketch is still, how you say, scathing. And, rare for an SNL skit this season, it's actually pretty funny.I wonder if this skit is a...
View ArticleWaPo: 'Cash for Clunkers'.... for appliances. (with Poll)
After the famous 3 billion dollar "Cash for Clunkers" (officially called CARS) program that rocked the auto market and contributed significantly to the 2.8% increase in GDP last quarter, the government...
View ArticleThe Stimulus & Cash for Clunkers; Iraq & Afghanistan
Economic data indicates the Stimulus worked and the primary criticism of "Cash for Clunkers" is dead wrong.Cash for Clunkers first. This is by New Deal Democrat, who posts on The Bondad...
View ArticleMarketing Our Governmenet
I was thinking about the "lack of enthusiasm" that's been showing up in pols of potential Democratic voters. Why are we surprised about a lack of enthusiasm when the media is basically bashing...
View ArticleCash for Clunkers - Not so Stimulative
Looks like the Cash for Clunkers program was not enough stimulus for the auto industry. The only entity/industry that has received enough stimulus are the big banks and yet they still are not lending.
View ArticleVehicle Sales were Higher in 1979 than 2009
I'm generally a big picture guy. I tend to grasp concepts better than I remember particular details. If some people have a photographic memory, mine's more like a Monet. But I understand that in order...
View ArticleYear in review: Iowa politics in 2009 (part 1)
I write mostly for the Iowa progressive community blog Bleeding Heartland. I expected 2009 to be a relatively quiet year in Iowa politics, but was I ever wrong.The governor's race heated up, state...
View ArticleCash For Republican Clunkers!
A new exciting program is being readied for you by your Federal government!Last year, the Cash for Clunkers program provided exceptional return on investment. We've spent tens of trillions of dollars...
View ArticleUnlikely Teabagger Candidate in OH-13
Tom Ganley, owner of the largest chain of car dealers in Ohio, has filed his papers to run in the Republican primary for Congress in Ohio’s 13th district. The seat is currently held by Betty Sutton...
View ArticleHypocrisy, thy name is Republican
Via Greg Sargent at The Plum Line a not-at-all surprising study in Republican hypocrisy:Not long ago it emerged that a number of anti-government Tea Party candidates all had the Tea Party equivalent of...
View ArticleExtraordinary!
Extraordinary! By David Glenn CoxI walk these quiet empty streets like a post-apocalyptic omega man surrounded by quiet and empty stores and houses. Past the fast food joints still not busy even at...
View ArticleKat's Obama Administration Report, 3/3/11
Hi, all. Today's report features:President's Remarks on Shooting of U.S. Service Members:"I want everybody to understand that we will spare no effort in learning how this outrageous act took place and...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: Cash for UK Clunkers
UK PM ThatIdiotBorisJohnson has a good idea: Pay drivers to give up gas guzzlers and buy electric cars. The chief argument against it from within the government is that it would mainly benefit foreign...
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