Cars.gov

[teatech]

Some info about the "cash for clunkers" program improving gas mileage.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-off...&asset=&ccode=

I say finance the program until people don't have any more clunkers they want to trade in.

Salty it is a liberal idea. It can't work!

[Cool Hand Clyde]

Salty it is a liberal idea. It can't work!

Actually, it is a very conservative idea that is skewed to help the UAW. Giving people their money back, in the forms of tax breaks, tax refunds or cash for clunkers, is definietely something a conservative could support. Now, just give back that money directly back to the taxpayers and you have an instant stimulus across the board.

[teatech]

Actually, it

is a very conservative idea that is skewed to help the UAW.

Giving people their money back, in the forms of tax breaks, tax refunds or cash for clunkers, is definietely something a conservative could support. Now, just give back that money directly back to the taxpayers and you have an instant stimulus across the board.

Well, why are the republicans the ones hinting at maybe not voting for it?

[Cool Hand Clyde]

Well, why are the republicans the ones hinting at maybe not voting for it?

Because it is an unfair subsidy. Give it back to the taxpayers and let them spend it. Everyone doesn't want or need a new car.

[teatech]

Because it is an unfair subsidy. Give it back to the taxpayers and let them spend it. Everyone doesn't want or need a new car.

Well I hope every republican votes against it then.

[saltydawg]

Because it is an unfair subsidy. Give it back to the taxpayers and let them spend it. Everyone doesn't want or need a new car.

The problem is that giving money back to the taxpayer doesn't mean that he or she will spend it. The "cash for clunker" does a couple of good policy moves: (1) it improves fleet gasoline mileage so the country imports less oil and it saves on what a family spends on gas, and (2) it helps the auto industry here in the USA survive.

If the gov't gave me $4500 i would just save it or spend me on gasoline for my gas guzzling clunker.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

The problem is that giving money back to the taxpayer doesn't mean that he or she will spend it. The "cash for clunker" does a couple of good policy moves: (1) it improves fleet gasoline mileage so the country imports less oil and it saves on what a family spends on gas, and (2) it helps the auto industry here in the USA survive.

If the gov't gave me $4500 i would just save it.

And the unions.

Just cut taxes.

[teatech]

The problem is that giving money back to the taxpayer doesn't mean that he or she will spend it. The "cash for clunker" does a couple of good policy moves: (1) it improves fleet gasoline mileage so the country imports less oil and it saves on what a family spends on gas, and (2) it helps the auto industry here in the USA survive.

If the gov't gave me $4500 i would just save it or spend me on gasoline for my gas guzzling clunker.

Who cares about the auto industry Salty. Let them rot!:icon_wink:

[PawDawg]

This is an incentive I can relate to ...

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/...ef=videosearch

[FishingBack]

If you go to the cars website, the privacy waiver that you click gives the gov permission to take all the files on your computer for any reason.

[Guisslapp]

If you go to the cars website, the privacy waiver that you click gives the gov permission to take all the files on your computer for any reason.

Sounds like an idea Obama stole from W.

[atobulldog]

Sounds like an idea Obama stole from W.

Doesn't make it right. Also it states thatthey can share that information with any government agency,foreign or domestic

[daybreaker3]

If you go to the cars website, the privacy waiver that you click gives the gov permission to take all the files on your computer for any reason.

If I google for cars.gov privacy waiver, all I see is links to Glenn Beck stories and this thread. Oh wait, because he said "waiver" instead of "policy"... thats hilarious.

Completely retarded, but hilarious.

Searching for the privacy POLICY I foundthis from the EFF:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08...-terms-service

And maybe duckbillplatty will come on here to tell you the EFF isnt going to be a "liberal" media source on this one, and if they say Glenn Beck is wrong and over-reacting and outright lying, then the EFF is right.

The EFF attacks the poorly worded policy as much as they do Fox News's hilariously incorrect reporting.

But I do think it just goes to show how much you guys will buy what Fox News tells you without even thinking about it. It's incredibly sad, really.

[daybreaker3]

Sounds like an idea Obama stole from W.

Nope, its an idea Glenn Beck stole from Rush Limbaugh: Lie to your listeners, and they will believe you without checking the story's veracity. The site does not, and never did, give the government that power.

[atobulldog]

If I google for cars.gov privacy waiver, all I see is links to Glenn Beck stories and this thread. Oh wait, because he said "waiver" instead of "policy"... thats hilarious.

Completely retarded, but hilarious.

Searching for the privacy POLICY I foundthis from the EFF:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08...-terms-service

And maybe duckbillplatty will come on here to tell you the EFF isnt going to be a "liberal" media source on this one, and if they say Glenn Beck is wrong and over-reacting and outright lying, then the EFF is right.

The EFF attacks the poorly worded policy as much as they do Fox News's hilariously incorrect reporting.

But I do think it just goes to show how much you guys will buy what Fox News tells you without even thinking about it. It's incredibly sad, really.

Actually that is only partly right, the article on Beck's website from transcripts mention that he said it was only accesible to the dealers. The lawyer was wrong and he went along with it. But as EFF provides confirmation, the agreement did exist for a time.