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‘Cash for Clunkers’ — It’s a Lemon

June 22, 2009 - 12:20 am - by Brian Douglas
bobdog
2009-06-22 09:04:12

So I trade in my 2005 Explorer with 80,000 miles on the meter for some “I’m intellectually superior to YOU” estrogen-powered golf cart. Does anybody actually think that Explorer is going to get crushed into a cube? No. It will be sold to somebody else at a steep discount, who will happily drive it for another 100,000 miles.

And I end up buying a Toyota, or a Honda, or a VW, none of which do a damn thing for Government Motors. Now we’ve got two cars on the road, belching all that icky carbon dioxide, and another $25,000 added to our trade deficit.

How many of our Congress critters are going to start driving to work in a chauffeur driven Smart Car?