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Originally Posted by babymog
That's a laugh (or cry). Did you see the list of all vehicles sold under that program? 3 of the top 10 are SUVs/light-trucks, the Ford F150 and Chevy full-sized pickups being 2 of the top 10 nameplates sold. They simply traded old guzzlers in on new guzzlers. Further, really old and polluting vehicles weren't eligible, etc., etc.
It was to create a bump in the economy so that our prez could point and say "the economy is recovering".
Also note that most of the vehicles were Korean and Japanese nameplates.
Well done.
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Not sure what point you were making in quoting that snippet, but I don't deny it was an economic "stimulus". However one
stated goal WAS removing gas guzzling vehicles off the road. Pollution wasn't part of the equation, should it have been sure, but they simply targeted low MPG vehicles... for good or bad.
What were the new gas guzzlers? Since my understanding was that only certain vehicles were eligible for purchase, then again I had no interest in the program so I'm not fully up on its stipulations.