But.. White House aides were not immediately available for comment.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who oversees the program, was unavailable for comment Thursday evening.
[Hmmm..aides in heavy attendance at the Beer Summit? The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration busy collecting car keys?]
$18 million for a website and a billion dollars gone in a week.
You stupid Democrats, Obama is GREAT, right?
We just brought home a new car using our clunker.
Just wondering out loud...have any of these dealerships that took in qualifying cars as trade-ins actually gotten any money yet from FedGov?
I saw on Fox that some people were trading in some very nice cars. This raises the question what is worse for the environment. Getting rid of a perfectly good car and sending it to the scrap heap, or using that same car for many more years and get 10-30% worse fuel economy.
How much does anyone want to bet the real reason for the cancellation is that old GM cars were being traded in for non-GM cars? The governments’s parts business was getting killed as well as government new car sales.
IM seeing the dealer on Sat. morn. I BETTER get my $4500 DAMN IT!
The gummint can have my clunker ... FMCDH.
And all the people who took advantage of this offer are a very sharp and well-off set, who play every angle for all it’s worth, and don’t let the grass grow under their feet.
I would like to see the percentage of the cars purchased under this program that are purchased for cash, which is another sign of a shrewd buyer.
I heard on the news this morning that no dealers here in Dallas have seen dollar One from the program yet. That might extend to the rest of the country, I don’t recall. If this program shuts down, a lot of dealers are likely to be out a LOT of money that they fronted, as per the program, to customers.
Here’s what we know: Through late Wednesday, 22,782 vehicles had been purchased through the program and nearly $96 million had been spent. (According to an AP Story).
Question, how many of these 22,782 vehicles were paybacks to union members? Wanna bet that it was known before hand that the cash for clunkers program would be shut down quickly? Any way we can get a list? Can we get a demographic or geographic breakdown?
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Obama and the democrats can’t even ‘run’ a simple program like this and you think they can run the banks,car companies, energy companies, insurance companies and HEALTHCARE?
Good grief!
The program is likely increasing the costs for non-qualifying buyers in the market for a more fuel-efficient car — because dealers can sell to Clunkers buyers for a higher dealer price. But why should someone trading an 18mpg car for a 25mpg car get a $4500 subsidy, while someone trading a 20mpg car for a 30mpg car gets nothing? And why should the 20mpg owner be taxed to subsidize the purchase of a possible competitor?
These red morons can't even run this program without a major FUBAR occuring within days of its comencement!!!!
As most people finance at least part of their new cars, I hope they don’t lose their jobs in this -12bama economy. They won’t be able to make their payments.
Yeah, I can’t believe they’ve already gone through $1Billion already. The list of eligible cars was even narrowing further.
One thing I heard on the radio today was that dealers were making folks sign a statement saying that if the dealer didn’t get paid from the government that the buyer was on the hook for the amount.
they’re just pissed because everyone used it to buy Ford’s
...I drove my new Ford F-150 home at 6pm tonight...got a great deal from my local dealer...I started working on this Sunday because I knew it was a once-in-a-lifetime event....BTW a dealer told me at noon today that this thing was starting to rumble....dealers could tell the log jam of paperwork was getting dangerously high...and when it breaks loose look out below!!...that’s why Uncle Sugar pulled the plug.
...the beauty part of this is that it will hurt Obama-care....people figure this fiasco is a glimpse of what government run health care will be.
They should rename it the Shovel Ready Cash for Clunkers program.