tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post5458600892857244994..comments2024-03-02T03:29:09.759-05:00Comments on SerandEz and Friends: Comments for ClunkersEzziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494592434522239195noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-82664917186714904212009-08-12T10:00:53.138-04:002009-08-12T10:00:53.138-04:00The estimated US manufacturing benefit from the pr...The estimated US manufacturing benefit from the program is 47%. Now lets apply 5 years of debt service interest at tax payer expense on top.<br /><br />Everyone being poor is surely to benefit the environment - but may not be the preferred choice.<br /><br />Now if the government wanted to jump start a new industry by offering everyone who puts up photoelectric solar cells a $5,000 check, you'd get a massive boost to manufacturing a future technology, entrepreneurs designing better installation kits and computer controlled systems, a reduction in power plant emissions, an increase in the power supply without building new power plants, a more reliable system as power generation starts distributing outward.<br /><br />Sounds like a plan. Oh wait, those guys don't contribute to the Democrats, the auto unions do. Scrap that one.Akivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13042484533217272945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-35525204272936661182009-08-10T22:40:36.099-04:002009-08-10T22:40:36.099-04:00Have to echo that many of the cars are built here....Have to echo that many of the cars are built here. Toyota brags that its pickup is the only pickup built entirely in the USA from tip to tip and top to bottom. <br /><br />But you're also forgetting the benefit to those of us with used cars to unload. Send Mary my way! I've got a $2,000 '96 Infiniti G20 for her, available Sept 1st.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-21599291913529159982009-08-10T20:29:33.751-04:002009-08-10T20:29:33.751-04:00Car manufacturing is to the 21st century as steel ...Car manufacturing is to the 21st century as steel manufactur was to the 20th century. It's a mass-produced commodity with thin margins and doesn't give the American worker or country a technological competitive edge. <br /><br />Skills and jobs related to the development of clean, renewable energy technology is better for the U.S. from international trade and economic standpoints.<br /><br />Cash for Clunkers only offers incremental advantages, offset, as you point out, by the reluctance to reinvest the revenue or share with the local economies. <br /><br />And it breeds resentment by the taxpayers who followed the rules, paid their mortgages and whose prudence has been rewarded by higher taxes.<br /><br />No, I'm not bitter :>)Arinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-64396579003261045222009-08-10T14:43:24.959-04:002009-08-10T14:43:24.959-04:00Not to mention the benefit to the environment!Not to mention the benefit to the environment!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-9558780812292499802009-08-10T12:35:24.874-04:002009-08-10T12:35:24.874-04:00Don't assume that a foreign car brand seen in ...Don't assume that a foreign car brand seen in the US is not assembled in the US. These cars are often made here by American labor Many of their components are made here, too.Bob Millernoreply@blogger.com