Comments on: Will a Cash-for-Clunkers Program Work?

U.S. Program Has Many More Restrictions than its Successful Counterpart in Germany

[Aldymac]

It never ceases to amase me about the liberals, once they have a response down pat thats all they know.

[bugbyyy]

This reporter is WRONG!, It is the NEW EPA rating of the old car, not as it was sold!

[rdupuy11]

Why don't reporters ever do anything useful?

I read the article, I visited the link. I still don't know if my vehicle qualifies. Is it the combined City/Highway, is it under the new EPA calculations or the old?

You say the 2000 Windstar qualifies, but it has a Highway over 18 mpg...did you calculate your own Highway/City combined rate that the website absolutely does not display for 2000 model years? If so, did you use a 50/50 ratio?

Why did you suggest the website tells you if you are qualified or not, when it does not?

[grabandgo]

How about GM built better quality cars. Clunkers? Vega Chevette Pontiac Fiero for a few.
The auto industry and unions created this mess, not us.
We don't need to fund buying cars with more tax dollars!

[cecil1961]

it was a good idea to start, but as usually our government takes a good idea and screws it up. I have a clunker but have only own it for 7 months, I would buy me a new car, but I can't because I have only had it for 7 months. Again, how stupid, most clunkers I have own dont even last a year.

[whatsup49]

my 10 year old saturn won't qualify even though my actual mileage now is about 16 city miles and 19 highway miles. i've kept the car maintained, but the mileage just keeps on dropping. but because of the way this program is designed that car won't qualify, but my friend's 2-year-old gas guzzeling suv does. this just stinks.

[Bobthefirst]

If it makes you feel any better, your friend's two year old vehicle doesn't qualify, either. Vehicles have to be model year 2001 or earlier to be eligible for trade-in under this program.

I can sympathize with your plight, however. My wife and I have a 1999 Buick Regal that gets far less than 18 mpg, but is rated at 21 mpg according to the government. We don't qualify, either.

Frankly, it wouldn't matter if we did; this money was confiscated by force from people who earned it, and is being given to people who didn't work for it at all. It's redistribution of wealth in the purest form, and it's wrong.

[Newster1]

We are so Broke because of OBAMA TRILLION DEBT.."

He's not the one who DOUBLED the debt from 5 trillion to over 11 trillion in 7 years, threatening other countries, including Russia and almost restarting the cold war, threatening Iran etc and destabilizing oil prices due to that- effectively trippling the price we pay at the pump.
That in turn caused the economic collapse and unemployment we are seeing now, it is Obama who is trying to clean that mess y our buddy king george hte last made.

[bill517]

Classic example of govt screwing around where it doesn't belong. Be much more effective to just hand the cash over to the UAW.

[vietnamwar]

Germany spent $5 billion to buy back cars. A clunker was defined as any car more than nine years old. Turn one in for scrap and you'd receive the equivalent of $3,300 dollars towards a new car.

The U.S. allocated $1 billion for its program -

We are so Broke because of OBAMA TRILLION DEBT..

[Newster1]

We are so Broke because of OBAMA TRILLION DEBT.."

He's not the one who DOUBLED the debt from 5 trillion to over 11 trillion in 7 years, threatening other countries, including Russia and almost restarting the cold war, threatening Iran etc and destabilizing oil prices due to that- effectively trippling the price we pay at the pump.
That in turn caused the economic collapse and unemployment we are seeing now, it is Obama who is trying to clean that mess y our buddy king george hte last made.

[vietnamwar]

Yep, the restricted program will not work here in the US...Dump policy..people have an old Honda can't not trade in .....

[Bobthefirst]

Nobody denies that Bush spent a lot of money when he shouldn't have. To do so would be ludicrous. That being said, Obama passed (in his first year of office) a budget larger than any of Bush's - including the war spending. That doesn't account for the $1,300,000,000,000 porkulus package he passed, too. Since that package was such an abysmal failure, there is now talk (still in the first year of office, mind you) of another porkulus bill. When it comes to budget deficits, people in glass houses should forget about the existence of rocks.