Cash for Clunkers

[Duffy]

I had this sent to me and found it pretty interesting





A vehicle at 15 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 800 gallons a year of gasoline.


| A vehicle at 25 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 480 gallons a year.



So, the average clunker transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.


| They claim: 700,000 vehicles – so that's 224 million gallons / year.


| That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil.


| 5 million barrels of oil is about ¼ of one day's US consumption.


| And, 5 million barrels of oil costs about $375 million dollars at $75/bbl.


| So, we all contributed to spending $3 billion to save $375 million.


| How good a deal was that ???

[myxxplyxx]

It was a good deal for me

$4500 for my 1992 F-150...

one program I actually benefited from.

[Prozac]

They have a new program out for fat strippers. It's called Cash for Chunkers.

BTW: this is not a political forum....lol

[Sideous Prime]

They have a new program out for fat strippers. It's called Cash for Chunkers.

BTW: this is not a political forum....lol

LOL

[pewterdragn]

Anyone want to put numbers out on how many jobs this saved or boosted the economy? this had nothing to do with saving money on gas....

just sayin.... in this non-political forum....

[Duffy]

Nope I agree helped the economy tremendously as well as the Auto workers, just saying really wasn't a save oil program by the numbers, and what do really save in the long run is regardless of what it did for the now.

[Duffy]

Oh and PD it actually helped the foreign car makers better than it did our own


Did you hear they are thinking of doing a "cash for appliances" that should be interesting think of all the old washer's dryers and such out there.

[myxxplyxx]

most of my honda civic I purchased with my clunker cash was made in the us and assembled in a us plant...I'd say it helped keep jobs here

http://ghspfiles.ghsp.com/News/GHSP_automotive_news.pdf

why buy from us car companies that can't balance their books or produce reliable cars.
they already got enough of my tax money in the bailout...why give them more.

this almost sounds like a political post

[Sideous Prime]

why buy from us car companies that can't balance their books or produce reliable cars.
they already got enough of my tax money in the bailout...why give them more.

buy a ford!!!

[Duffy]

most of my honda civic I purchased with my clunker cash was made in the us and assembled in a us plant...I'd say it helped keep jobs here

http://ghspfiles.ghsp.com/News/GHSP_automotive_news.pdf

why buy from us car companies that can't balance their books or produce reliable cars.
they already got enough of my tax money in the bailout...why give them more.

this almost sounds like a political post

Yeah and alot of Toyota's are assembled here also and I have friends that work for Toyota plants so I agree that it did help keep jobs available, just be interesting to see how much we helped their markets with the program.

Sid I agree Ford's all the way

[myxxplyxx]

buy a ford....good idea.

I went and looked at an f-150 that I could fit the kids into...started around $27,000 before rebates.........and horrible gas mileage.

Drove ford's answer to the civic...the focus. Handling and shifting couldn't be compared to the civic. Also the civic has the highest maintained value while I thought the focus would be worth zippo after four years which I assumed was its average lifespan...its actually a nissan I think...buy american I'd like to buy american but I'm done with eating shit because we owe it to them. they owe it to us to make dependable, reliable cars that people want to drive. I see nissan is coming out with an affordable all electric car next year called the leaf...detroit will tell you it can't for this reason or another but nissan will probably do it. how long have we waited for gm's volt thing which is outrageously priced.

[Prozac]

Oh man. You guys are all just a bunch of this-is-not-a-political-forumers. Don't try and deny it. Oh yes....this is a political forum Sid....muhahaha!

Sid's just unruly because he's been my bitch lately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Porkinator]

I don't owe the UAW shit.
They drives prices through the roof with all the crap they pull with floor sweepers making 30 an hour and they one of the main reasons why Detriot can't compete is all the cash they had to pour into that mob controlled bunch.
I buy a car once every 12 to 15 years so it has to last.
I my last ones were Toyotas and my next one will be too because they last forever with a little maintainence.
I have to get to work every day and back and I can't afford to have breakdowns because I bought a Detriot Monday or Friday car.

[Sideous Prime]

IMO for the most part, all cars are built the same. it's all about how you take care of them. if you never do any kind of maintenence the car won't last as long. whereas if you give it a lot of tlc(i mean real tlc), you'll have a dependable ride for life.

then there are lemons...

[Cloud]

IMO for the most part, all cars are built the same. it's all about how you take care of them. if you never do any kind of maintenence the car won't last as long. whereas if you give it a lot of tlc(i mean real tlc), you'll have a dependable ride for life.

then there are lemons...

You can't possibly believe that Sid. It's like with ANYTHING, some things are built BETTER than others.

Period.