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Originally Posted by Mickey  Well, I was wondering if Doug got in on this gold mine when I heard the news earlier today. |
Nope. The hideous old
A.R.E. is too fuel efficient... so it doesn't qualify.
I still can't believe it. The government decides to give away
a billion dollars in 4 days to rid the country of clunkers and the poor old Dougster™ doesn't get one red cent!
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Originally Posted by Mickey Uncle Sam blew $1 billion in less than a week. Ya really think he can manage to run your health care?
On Mon local tv station talking about this program and spoke about a couple cars that qualified. Mid-90's Ford Vicky and twin Merc model. Folks and wife's uncle has/had these cars and they would consistently get 28 mpg on the highway. These are the clunkers their scraping for new models that might get less mileage. Did see an advertisement yesterday for one of the new econo-box SUV's that according to the ad gets 24 mpg.
Yep, ole Uncle Sam has got his s#@t together, as usual.   |
I've been watching TV too. The funny thing is that it is all rich old folks trading in their American-made Caddies and Buicks for new foreign-made cars (lots of Acuras, Toyotas and Hondas I noticed!). How the heck is that helping the US auto makers to recover from anything???
Anyway, damn few real "clunkers"
in actual daily use qualified for this windfall... and none that us po' folk could ever have afforded to own and drive.
Once again, the rich get richer and the poor continue to drive hideous, brakeless old wrecks.
Dougster™
