John et al.
I did the maths. To get the $4,500 dollars for my daily driver (a 2002
Ford Explorer) I'd have to trade it in for a 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid.
Not only would it be a smaller, less optioned car, but it'd cost me an
additional $25,000 to own said vehicle that I don't want over the
lifespan through 2019.
Pretty stupid.
Jody
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM, John Sims<ahbn6@verizon.net> wrote:
> We could stop it. Interesting to note that of the top five cars being
> purchased with this program, the first is a Ford product and the others are
> imports. Ford, of course, did not take any money from the Federal government
> and neither did Toyota, Honda et al. So, we used OUR tax money to bail out
> GM and Chrysler and still no one wants their products which is why they were
> failing in the first place. Certainly, the American public has voted on
> their automobile preferences and it is not for the cars made by the bailees.
> Newspaper articles are decrying the apparent fact that this program has a
> miniscule effect on the environment. Lost in the headlines is that there is
> an increase of almost 10 MPG thus lessening somewhat our dependence upon
> oil. And, that is a good thing but probably not worth $4,500 for cars that
> probably would have been traded in over the next year or so anyway.
>
> John Sims, BN6
> Aberdeen, NJ
>
> http://www.healey6.com
>
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