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Cash for Clunkers moves to appliances: Money back for your old Kelvinator?
Consumer Reports ^
| August 21, 2009
| Bob Markovich
Posted on 08/24/2009 8:14:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:16:44 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Same old welfare queens will turn up to charge their appliances to their unborn to pay interest on.
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:17:31 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sales of dishwashers, refrigerators, and washing machinesthe three appliances covered by the appliance-rebate programhave been off by some 25 percent from their peak during the last housing boom. Given that we have the mother of all un-booms going on now, to be down by 25% isn't bad at all.
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:18:32 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:19:06 PM PDT
by
freebilly
( No wonder all the left has a boner for Obama.... There's "Cialis" in "SoCIALISt")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Another giveaway for the scum at General Electric. Immelt is on the board of the NY Federal Reserve which is now headed by an AFL-CIO goon.
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:19:42 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Lou Dobbs - American Hero! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
To: freebilly
Turn in your unsafe sex porn for safe sex porn....
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:20:33 PM PDT
by
freebilly
( No wonder all the left has a boner for Obama.... There's "Cialis" in "SoCIALISt")
To: Frantzie
I swear I think my head is going to explode. Is it just me, or is all this shi$ going down at warp speed?
To: Big Giant Head
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:21:51 PM PDT
by
Marie Antoinette
(Proud Clinton-hater since 1998.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And while the money is coming from Washington, how much you get for which appliance will be a state-by-state decision.Can you step across a state-line for the best deal?
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:22:47 PM PDT
by
Buddy B
(MSgt Retired-USAF - Year: 1972)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who or what could we trade in Al Gore for? He’s full of more hot air than anything or anyone else I can think of! ;-)
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:23:25 PM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The whole thing is reminiscent of China's Great Leap Forward where the population was encouraged to collect iron, scrap and otherwise, to feed the state smelters which then produced inferior metal. Maybe next we'll be told to kill birds for the good of the State.
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:23:50 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: 2ndDivisionVet
D-LA. Congressman Jefferson was way ahead on this scheme. He had cash in his freezer.
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:25:39 PM PDT
by
bleach
(Wake me in 2012)
To: Buddy B
Our Sears washer & dryer are 17 years old. We are gonna’ cash in!
To: Marie Antoinette
If you have a decent dishwasher that’s a decade or so old, you might want to keep it as long as possible. This is because the new ones can take as much as twice as long to run with their squirrel powered motors. (Sometimes this choice is not possible if the racks are wearing down to rusting metal and nobody carries replacements. Beware of rack substitutes recommended by online vendors; they sometimes do not fit.)
The same goes for various kinds of modern low water usage washers vs. older top loading washers. They run 2 or 3 times longer to make up for the smaller amount of water.
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:38:02 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
To: ExtremeUnction
My Sears freezer is 27yrs old, and a friend has one even older than that !
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:38:57 PM PDT
by
1066AD
To: 2ndDivisionVet
You can pick up any of those appliances at a thrift store for about $25.
This is ridiculous. Throw away a gum wrapper, they freak out because you're not recycling our precious resources. Throw away an automobile, a dishwasher, a washing machine and a refrigerator and you're a hero.
They're really going to go through all this crap for an appliance that's 10% to 25% more energy efficient? And they're really going to act shocked when the paltry sum of money they've allotted is grossly insufficient?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
windows. We’re going to have a national day of breaking windows to stimulate the economy
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:44:02 PM PDT
by
4rcane
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I bet they really want the older refrigerators because they contain a formula of Freon that’s been banned (but is more efficient).
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:46:31 PM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(GOP: Stop listening, start doing -- we need new leaders!)
To: 1066AD
General Electric used to run ads that showed pride in their vintage machines while touting the most modern models.
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posted on
08/24/2009 8:47:30 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
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