The customer has the choice of not buying the vehicle. If the dealer relies on the government to fulfill its promise and the government doesn’t fulfill it, there likely won’t be a dealer there at all to service that vehicle so that customer can go drive 50 miles.
Ostammer and his thugs are likely sitting there laughing their butts off at the dealers for trusting them, especially after what they pulled with the auto manufacturers shutting down so many dealerships.
The increased sales are of no benefit to the dealers if they lose money on those deals.
They will make it up on the volume.
True, both the dealer and the customer get the shaft if the government defaults, or at least one of them does. My point was simply that the dealer would never have made the sale in the first place had the rebate program not been in place, yet I’m sure they would have no interest in undoing the whole deal if the goobermint reneges. I realize that to an extent they can’t because the vehicle would now be used, but what about the customer who made a decision they wouldn’t otherwise have made on the strength of the rebate promise, then they’re expected to stand by the purchase even though the deal has been changed on them after the fact? Point is, if the government defaults, BOTH the dealer and the buyer have been put in impossible positions.