Cash for Clunker Cribs

Toys R Us is getting in on the clunker craze

If you’ve been wishing you could get a better crib, car seat, or stroller than the one you have now — without having to first go online and type “no fax payday loans no credit check” into your Google search [...]

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Get $1,500 Extra With Cash For Clunkers From cars.gov

Start Your Application For Up To $1,500 Below
Short Term Loans Online
If you are going to trade a vehicle in under the Cash For Clunkers program you might as well apply for a short-term loan online to put some money in your pocket to help with the down payment. Everyone knows [...]

Short Term Loans are Simple and Quick

Clunker Appliances Are Going Green

Coming soon to an appliance dealer near you
Beginning late this fall, federal rebates will be available for purchasers of high-efficiency household appliances, furnaces, and air-conditioning systems. Earlier this year Congress authorized $300 million for the program as part of the federal economic-stimulus bill. Funds were distributed to states based [...]

Chevy Volt | Not Ready For Cash For Clunkers America

Fuel efficient, with the sticker shock
The vision of President Obama is that programs like Cash For Clunkers will eliminate all of the gas guzzling monstrosities of rusted metal that populate America’s highways, replacing them with pristine machines with glistening MPG ratings and minimal impact upon the environment. The reality of [...]

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Who’s Winning the Clunker Derby?

The numbers are in
According to a list compiled by the National Transportation Safety Administration, compact cars and hybrids are top sellers in the Cash for Clunkers trade-in program. The average combined city and highway fuel economy of the top ten cars ranges from 27 to 33 miles per gallon, [...]

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Cash For Clunkers Gets $2 Billion Green Light

If you’re in the market for a car, get to buying!
Did you actually think that a Senate with a Democratic super majority would allow one of President Obama’s pet projects to die? Did you believe that the shot in the arm for automobile dealerships would be allowed to fade away? [...]

Cash For Clunkers has been extended (Photo: blogs.southtownstar.com)

New Economic Signs: Rays of Hope?

Economic Indicators Are Rising . . . and Confusing
Production is on the rise
If you need easy loans just to make it from paycheck to paycheck, and even then you could still use some extra cash, take heart. Recently there have been hopeful signs that the current recession is coming [...]

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Dealers Make Their Own Automotive Stimulus Plan

Trade for a new or used car!
Will $2 billion in Cash For Clunkers money be approved by the Senate? Will the public’s insatiable appetite to recycle their tax dollars on vehicles many of them can’t afford ever be quenched? Will Cash For Clunkers get in the way of the Obama [...]

What!? You could afford your own stimulus the whole time? (Photo: blog.puppetgov.com)

UPDATE: House OKs $2 Billion More For Cash For Clunkers

Mo’ money, mo’ clunkers
If you were worried like we were that Cash For Clunkers was suspended due to lack of funds, worry not. It’s halfway to being extended, thanks to a House vote that approved $2 billion more dollars for the program. Now the program might last… a couple more [...]

Cash For Clunkers Suspended?

The money may have run out – ALREADY!
America needs strong, decisive action from its government that will restore consumer faith in the economy. One of the vehicles President Obama had planned to use to help those of us who are hamstrung by the high cost of gasoline was the Cash [...]

Cash For Clunkers Stimulus | Too Little For Too Few?

Will your vehicle hit the $4,500 jackpot?
In principle, it sounds great. People have the opportunity to trade in their older, less fuel-efficient cars for vouchers of up to $4,500. These vouchers are usable on new vehicles that are more fuel efficient than the “clunkers” being traded in. President Obama’s point [...]

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Cash For Clunkers and Climate Change Bill Close to Passage

Make that rusted hulk worth something
A little while back, we talked about President Obama’s plan for the “Cash For Clunkers” program. It appeared to be a promising plan to spur new car sales by enabling car dealerships to take in older cars at better trade value. Better economically, better environmentally [...]

Cash For Clunkers | Obama’s Green Ticket to Car Sales

Squeeze gold from that rust bucket
Cars.com’s “Kicking Tires” blog reports that President Obama has urged the automobile industry to adopt an incentive program called “Cash For Clunkers.” In order to attract more new car buyers, automobile manufacturers would offer greater trade-in value for older, less fuel-efficient vehicles.
Bills introduced in the [...]