Ford wants to help you recycle your clunker

And, no, they don’t mean that old quip about Ford.  Instead they mean to help you navigate the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) popularly known as Cash For Clunkers. As noted before the Cash for Clunkers program is not exactly simple especially in determining whether your vehicle is eligable.  The…

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Environmental benefits (or not) of the Cash for Clunkers program

Ideally a program like the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) really would cause a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, improve energy security, reduce oil dependence costs, and increase energy sustainability.  The program’s key is to incentivize replacement of inefficient cars with more efficient transportation choices.  An earlier article (The Cash…

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The Cash for Clunkers program

Got a clunker of a car you want to replace with a new one?  There is a new law meant to address greenhouse emissions and energy security.  The program incentivizes Americans to buy new fuel efficient vehicles to replace inefficient ones.  Increasing the average fleet fuel economy in the U.S.A.…

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