Cash for Clunkers

[Nitro Express]

I tried to trade Sammy Hagar for cash but they refused to take that clunker.

[Nickdfresh]

And neither are researchers.

Either can be "researchers" --if inept ones I guess...

Over the years, I've become a big proponent of community colleges. But not if they're corrupt, I guess.

Well, we agree on something. I think we've agreed before on this point -- that community colleges should become effectively 13th and 14th grade in the public schools curriculum...

Go with it man! Whatever helps you sleep at night.

That would be alcohol, and copious amounts of it.

[Blackflag]

Reuters are actual journalists (sort of). Edmunds is a amateurish site where they send hack writers

And neither are researchers.

Erie Country does; although I think they're considered to be such a political slush fund and patronage fluff posting for hacks that their sports teams are boycotted in certain parts of the country.

Over the years, I've become a big proponent of community colleges. But not if they're corrupt, I guess.

One of my friends was a temporary professor there, and he taught me that I was smarter than most college professors (and libertarians )

Go with it man! Whatever helps you sleep at night.

[Nickdfresh]

Yet, when I questioned the research done by Reuters, which knows fuck-all about medicare fraud, you expected me to take it at face value.

Reuters are actual journalists (sort of). Edmunds is a amateurish site where they send hack writers to be an "uncover carsalesman" who ultimately learn nothing, tell us nothing, and pretty much waste our time with the obvious...

And you can question whatever you want, and believe whatever you want. So can I. If you don't like it, then fuck off and don't read it...

Doesn't Buffalo have a community college or some shit you can take a class in logic or critical thinking?

Erie Country does; although I think they're considered to be such a political slush fund and patronage fluff posting for hacks that their sports teams are boycotted in certain parts of the country.

One of my friends was a temporary professor there, and he taught me that I was smarter than most college professors (and libertarians )

[Blackflag]

Yet, when I questioned the research done by Reuters, which knows fuck-all about medicare fraud, you expected me to take it at face value.

Doesn't Buffalo have a community college or some shit you can take a class in logic or critical thinking?

[Nickdfresh]

Cash for Clunkers Results Finally In: Taxpayers Paid $24,000 per Vehicle Sold, Reports Edmunds.com

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — October 28, 2009 — Edmunds.com, the premier resource for online automotive information....
Cash for Clunkers Results Finally In: Taxpayers Paid $24,000 per Vehicle Sold, Reports Edmunds.com

I had a good chuckle at that line. Really? Edmunds in a nice clearing house for information they get fed from manufacturers and they're a good resource for researching prices and all that.

But if you've ever read one of their supposed in-depth pieces--well--most of it is fuckwitted, shallow and often either completely contrary to reality or "duh" stuff that is intuitive fluff that everyone knows anyways masqued as meticulous research. I would love to know their methodologies and how they arrived that this conclusion.

Did they ask people, "did you need a 'government handout' to buy a car?"

What is someone going to say? "Oh NOOOOO!!! I would have bought one anyways!" (lies).

Edmunds should stick to posting invoice prices of cars and leave actual automotive journalism to professionals...

[Blackflag]

Government efficiency, baby!

I got mine.

[Fuct Jup]

Report: Cash for Clunkers Auto Program Cost Taxpayers $24,000 Per Vehicle

Cash for Clunkers Results Finally In: Taxpayers Paid $24,000 per Vehicle Sold, Reports Edmunds.com

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — October 28, 2009 — Edmunds.com, the premier resource for online automotive information, has determined that Cash for Clunkers cost taxpayers $24,000 per vehicle sold.

Nearly 690,000 vehicles were sold during the Cash for Clunkers program, officially known as CARS, but Edmunds.com analysts calculated that only 125,000 of the sales were incremental. The rest of the sales would have happened anyway, regardless of the existence of the program.

Ironically, the average transaction price for a new vehicle in August 2009 was only $26,915 minus an average cash rebate of $1,667.

"This analysis is valuable for two reasons," explained Edmunds.com CEO Jeremy Anwyl. "First, it can form the basis for a complete assessment of the program's impact and costs. Second—and more important—it can help us to understand the true state of auto sales and the economy. For example, October sales are up, but without Cash for Clunkers, sales would have been even better. This suggests that the industry's recovery is gaining momentum."

The chart below sets forth actual SAAR (Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate) compared to Edmunds.com's forecasted rate if the program had never been implemented.

Cash for Clunkers Results Finally In: Taxpayers Paid $24,000 per Vehicle Sold, Reports Edmunds.com

[standin]

How many , like me, think this car will be a total fail in production, quality and sales ?

Chevy Volt | Electric Car - Future Cars | Chevrolet

[bueno bob]

The owner of the local Wilsonville dealership had a statement in this mornings Oregonian...basically amounted to the fact that they're still waiting on government consideration about the Cash for Clunkers deal, and the government is completely swamped trying to process all the claims. He said they've been waiting for over three weeks for their paperwork to get processed, but it's a hard wait due to the current financial bind they're all in. Bottom line is cash.

Apparently the processing people have been great multiplied, but due to the overwhelming success of the program, it's still going to be a wait, and since their bottom line is cash...

[Nickdfresh]

It's all over Monday at 8: 00pm...

[thome]

So I am talking with this guy right...( I wrote this joke a couple days ago and I am not sure it is right, but maybe one of you an impove on it )

so this guy... and I are talking and he is making me admire his newest aquisition, a new Prias or Hybrid (pick any ) and he tells me all about "the car" and how he has "the car" in that makes him cool, and so I say, ahhh.................. thanks for all that............ahhhh... were are you headed now, and he sais,.............. to fill the car up with gasoline, because he has found out already, that...... that is the most cost effective and efficient way to drive around the extra 400 pounds of lead acid batteries installed in the trunk...

so do you get it..?

I will be signing autographs in............................... THE MEZZANINE!

[Seshmeister]

Germany who was the first country to come up with the 'cash for clunkers' idea came out of recession this week...

[standin]

Transportation costs.
And down time of transportation can cost a job.

[GAR]

I got my numbers from a compound interest calculator, since I ain't no good with them modern mathematics:

Compound Interest Calculator

Your mileage may vary.