Aug
3rd
Mon
3rd
Cash for Clunkers is apparently a clunker itself.
Yet another bailout for the auto industry? Under the current program, clunkers can’t be recycled for parts and there’s no incentive to, y’know, trade in a clunker and take transit, ride a bike, or somehow reduce pollution or energy usage by actually taking a car off the road.
Rightwingers, rightly so, are having a field day with this. According to William Kristol, clunker cash goes to a “bunch of upper-middle-class people who have some cars sitting around from 12 years ago. Now they’re just accelerating their purchase to get 4,500 bucks.”
Ooops was the sound of an eight-year-old car backfiring.
Um, how about cash for transit?
