It must need a kick-start
If you have multiple cars on blocks outside and no immediate plans to rearrange the furniture on your front lawn, perhaps you should give your homestead look a bit of summer loving. At the very least, you should take advantage of the Cash For Clunkers 2009 program and get something that will purr when you turn the key. Their car allowance rebate system should help the environment and change your lounging area from a rust garden into a place where grass will have a fighting chance.
But the operative word is should. Apparently, the Web site it up but the rules aren’t completely in place. Until then, use cash advance in Connecticuts as the fast loans that help you make that down payment on a newer vehicle.
“Tell your dealers so we don’t have to!”
Justin Hyde of the Detroit Free Press reports that while Congress has passed Cash For Clunkers 2009 and the Web site www.cars.gov is in place, rules to govern the program could take up to a month to hammer out. That’s government efficiency for you.
Cars.gov so far is a source that offers information on how the exchange process (clunker for fuel-efficient roadster) will go down. It also urges consumers to contact their local dealers in order to talk them into registering for the program. To me, it seems that that should be the job of the government. I elected you for what reason, again? I pay taxes for… what was that again? Representation? What a concept!
Will Cash For Clunkers 2009 be enough incentive?
Congress has sent their approved version of the $1 billion bill to President Obama for his signature. As it stands, it is designed to give about 250,000 consumers $3,500 to $4,500 in money off the sticker price of a newer, more fuel-efficient vehicle. The original target was $4 billion and one million cars, but the real question is whether people who have held on to their rust buckets will even be able to afford the reduced-price cars once the deal is made. $3,500 to $4,500 isn’t that much if you’re talking a sticker price of $25,000 or more. It helps, but higher-priced vehicles will still be out of reach of many.
What about this delay? CNW Marketing/Research claims that the delay in getting the sign off by Congress is the culprit. Not only did they lessen the scope of the program – which means it will help only a quarter of those originally intended – but now car shoppers won’t be able to take advantage of the program through July. And guess what? There’s a November 1 cutoff, too! Perhaps it will read “between 11:57 p.m. and 12:01 a.m. on the third Tuesday of September by the time Obama’s done with it.
Even with the financial assistance, CNW predicts that buyers will be going primarily for Asian makes. Make it better and make it cheaper, America. Too many big, expensive hulks is what got the industry into this mess in the first place. Better, more fuel-efficient cars are better for the environment, too, although CNW believes that when it comes to Cash For Clunkers 2009, “the environmental impact will be minuscule considering the number of vehicles actually being replaced.”
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