The feds are still determined to get my car

[L DC]

Ironically and interesting enough some people are actually using the C4C program to trade their "clunkers," which are suppossed to get less than 18MPG, for new gas guzzlers like Hummers!!

WFT???

With a price cap up to $45K, many of these gas guzzlers quilify.

This reveals the true nature of the program--is not to get less-fuel- efficient and more pollutant vehicles off the road, as it is to try to shore up a dying industry, and in this case the american automotive.

Read on:

http://tinyurl.com/myn7og

-Peace,

-Louis
 

--- On Thu, 8/13/09, Henry A Harper III <hah at alumni.rice.edu> wrote:

> From: Henry A Harper III <hah at alumni.rice.edu>
> Subject: RE: The feds are still determined to get my car
> To: 
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 11:41 AM
> 
> Note that cardealerreviews.org is NOT the *official* "CARS"
> program/Cash for
> Clunkers site - that is www.cars.gov - but someone else's
> data mashup. The
> actual law states eligible "clunkers" are less than 25
> years old & < 18mpg
> (as listed on EPA's site fueleconomy.gov), so 1985 and
> newer. The
> cardealerreviews.org site may or may not be
> complete/authoritative.
> Definitely not, as it doesn't list earlier than 1990...
> 
> Henry
> 1991 200 quattro, 129k, "clunker" got 26+ mpg hwy on recent
> trip
> 1988 GTI 16v, 246k, officially not a "clunker" due to high
> EPA economy, back
> from 2nd annual transaxle rebuild...grrr