US policymakers are rolling out big incentives for electric vehicle buyers who surrender a gas-powered model, advancing efforts to cancel carbon emissions.
I know cash for clunkers wasn’t a big hit with a lot people, but it wasn’t unlimited. Didn’t it too out at $4,500 and wasn’t that a bit tiered? What idiot wouldn’t have taken their car to somewhere like Carmax for a quote. Or a dealer actually look up the KBB price of a car before scrapping it? If it was worth more than the credit, it would have been silly to put it in the program. Now, I also remember people towing in non running POS’s and getting the credit, so that was a wash.
Sure, it took some used cars off the road, but I think it was the very bottom tier anyway. If you were in the rust belt, that car didn’t have much life left in it anyway.
I know cash for clunkers wasn’t a big hit with a lot people, but it wasn’t unlimited. Didn’t it too out at $4,500 and wasn’t that a bit tiered? What idiot wouldn’t have taken their car to somewhere like Carmax for a quote. Or a dealer actually look up the KBB price of a car before scrapping it? If it was worth more than the credit, it would have been silly to put it in the program. Now, I also remember people towing in non running POS’s and getting the credit, so that was a wash.
Sure, it took some used cars off the road, but I think it was the very bottom tier anyway. If you were in the rust belt, that car didn’t have much life left in it anyway.