The Low Down On Green Living
June 19th, 2009
Upgrade to a Greener Car AND Get Cash for Your Old Car
Stumble it!
So as far as I can tell there are now THREE great reasons why this is the time to get rid of your old hunk o’ junk and upgrade to a cleaner, greener car.
1) It is the right thing to do for the environment. Remember your car is one of the biggest ways you personally contribute to global warming.
2) There are ridiculous deals on cars right now. Dealers are suffering and you can negotiate with abandon.
3) Congress has just passed the “Cash for Clunkers” legislation that will allow consumers to get up to $4,500 for turning in an inefficient vehicle and buying a new, more efficient one.
So hop to it people!
The new bill would even allow consumers to buy a wide range of vehicles — including large pickup trucks — with the government money when they scrap an older, less-efficient model. The cars that are offered for trade-in must get 18 MPG or less, be built in 1984 or later, and be in operating condition. The new car purchased must be at least 22 MPG for a car, 18 MPG for a light truck or 15 MPG for a heavy-duty truck. To learn more about the requirements for the new cars click here.
The proposed program would subsidize the purchase of 600,000 to one million vehicles,
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Comments
David Tannen
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 am
Sorry but I really hate this subsidized program… I don’t think it is a good use of my tax dollars, especially when you look at the mpg requirements. If the car mpg was closer to 30 mpg and truck/van/suv was 25 mpg and heavy duty truck was 20 mpg then it might be ok.
Ryan
June 29th, 2009 at 9:48 am
This is a political green wash auto maker bail out, pure and simple. 22 MPG is pathetic if the goal of this program was to reduce energy expenditure. The actual goal of this program was an indirect auto maker bail out that was framed in such a way to keep the public from crying out about another bail out.
How many new cars do not meet the qualifications for the credit? This is not about energy efficiency and this site should be ashamed for buying into this green wash trash.
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