Comments on: 5 Lessons from Cash for Clunkers for the Green Car Market http://gigaom.com/cleantech/5-lessons-from-cash-for-clunkers-for-the-green-car-market/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:38:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Detroit Auto Show Day 1: Plug-ins, Hybrids & Protesters, Oh My http://gigaom.com/cleantech/5-lessons-from-cash-for-clunkers-for-the-green-car-market/#comment-26166 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:24:07 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=39779#comment-26166 [...] the auto industry’s agreement to tighter fuel economy standards over the next six years, the results of the cash for clunkers program and automakers’ commitment to building [...]

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]]> By: Eideard http://gigaom.com/cleantech/5-lessons-from-cash-for-clunkers-for-the-green-car-market/#comment-26164 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:48:02 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=39779#comment-26164 “some economists have argued” is a straw man. OK, I guess, if you agree with the substance.

I don’t.

1. Yes.

2. Whining about the “bar” is useful after the fact. Including the last sentence validates it for next time. The lower standards got the critter passed in a timely fashion. Consumers proved smarter than Congress. What a surprise!

3. The most important data was jobs saved and created, sales made, some level of improvement was guaranteed. Stimulus.

4. The way it worked provides additional motive for applying the program elsewhere – like refrigerators.

NEXT TIME – tell the Feds to quit kowtowing to Republican beancounters stuck in the 19th Century ethic of “never trust the consumer or the seller”.

The amount of paperwork required for the rebate was patently absurd. Not having enough computing horsepower handy came in 2nd.

Can you imagine Amazon, for example, trying to sell something and process a rebate this way?

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