[cripplecreek]

Mandatory in under a decade.

[neodad]

Just more UAW “stimulation”. Wanna bet you have to buy a Government Motors vehicle to qualify?

[mcmuffin]

Time to stock up on those 80’s V-8 Buicks and LTD’s!

[Nachum]

The List, ping

Let me know if you want on or off the ping list.

[jiggyboy]

Bernanke’s infamous “helicopter” speech made an oblique mention of this as a possibility. Virtually every crazy, desperate, probably illegal, trick in the book he threw out in that speech has been put into action.

[bmwcyle]

Next it will be put your gun in the trunk and turn it in together.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

We’re screwed. We’re so screwed. And I drive a 2001 Corolla and have been thinking about trading it in on a Jeep or Subaru.

[Sybeck1]

So I get a little tax credit if I take on a monthly car payment, which I don’t have with my paid for truck?

[Crawdad]

I cannot imagine a government used car salesman. It’s something from a bad dream.

[zbogwan2]

People usually drive old clunkers because they can’t afford anything better. If the Government buys them chances are they’ll just buy another clunker if they can, not a new car they can’t afford.

Maybe Obama and company will buy them all a new vehicle too?

[Made In The USA]

If the alleged driver of this is saving mutha-earf... I’d echo an argument made in Car Craft magazine that it is likely more environmentally responsible to fix up your old clunker.

How much carbon footprint goes into manufacturing a new car vs. fixing up what you have? Of course, my brain is wired to have the fix up involve 400+ horsepower!

[Right Wing Assault]

Here's mine.

[Venturer]

I can see the old Caddilacs being pulled out of Ghetto yards now.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Now that “The Divine One” and his apostles control the automobile industry the fun begins.

[JohnBrowdie]

how far away can we be from a tax increase levied on those who do own "clunkers"? And who is to say where "clunkerism" starts? and who doesn't believe that this will wind up as a tax on anyone that doesn't own a "government approved" vehicle?

we're right around the corner from being forced to buy whatever nancy pelosi thinks is best for us.

[jimt]

Anathema to hot rodders.

Dingell is just wanting full employment for the UAW. If this passes my next car will be from a non-union company - and I currently own a Chrysler and a Lincoln.

[gieriscm]

Wonder what the details are. I have a 1984 Chevy pickup w/ a blown head gasket, scrap value probably less than $1000. If .gov wants to give me $4500 for it, and I buy a foreign econo-box in return, I won't argue.

Of course, I'll be keeping my two CUCV's, the M35, and the Suburban...

[Carry_Okie]

I have a 1969 Power Wagon.
It has a flatbed with a PTO-driven hydraulic dump.
It hauls mostly firewood, gravel, leaves, and brush.
I won't trade it for anything.

I drive that truck at most 500 miles per year. How is replacing it with a new truck going to save carbon?

Yeah, I know. I'll just pull the plates and keep it on the farm.

[Uncle Hal]

I have a 1982 MB 300SD and is our second car. It has close to 200,000 miles on it.I am retired and only drive it about a 1000 miles a year. I will keep it as long as it runs. Why should I get a new car unless they offer me enough to get a new car? The next 4 year are going to be very long and miserable and costly.

[lowbridge]

a broader effort to fight climate change

Much like LBJs war on poverty, climate will win. Taxpayers will lose.