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Cars-cash-for-bclunkers/b Following up on my previous post, Cash for bClunkers/b = Gross Income to Dealers (Not Customers), which explained that the statute expressly provides that the $3500 and $4500 rebates are not treated as income to car …

After one month, an extra $2 billion in funding and an absolute mess of paperwork, Cash for bClunkers/b has finally petered out. The final numbers are in and the program resulted in 700000 sales totaling $2.877 billion in $3500 and $4500 …

It’s finally over. After four weekends of madness, confusion and Web site crashes, the whirlwind that was the cash for bclunkers/b program came to a close Tuesday night.

The stats from the Cash-for-bClunkers/b program sound so promising: more than 625000 gas guzzlers taken off the road in exchange for more fuel-efficient models. About 84 percent of the trade-ins were trucks, while 59 percent of the new …

Where were all those bclunkers/b that the government paid to get rid of? A disproportionate number were in New England. The South seems to have not had its share.

Car dealers are happy, the White House may be happy–and taxpayers might be happy, depending on their point of view, that the Cash for bClunkers/b program (

A per capita breakdown of how states benefited from the cash for bclunkers/b auto purchase program.

The government’s cash for bclunkers/b program finally came to an end at 8 p.m. last night, netting 690114 transactions valued at $2.88 billion. The program was originally funded for $1 billion, but was extended by another $2 billion after …

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Edmunds analysts see car shoppers’ current purchase intent, a measure of how likely they are to buy a car in the next 90 days, falling sharply now that the bclunkers/b program has ended. It’s now down 50 percent from its peak in mid-June …

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August 27th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Next time you’re sipping your favorite wine, examine the glass closely: If it’s thick and greenish, it might have been the windshield of an old, junked car.img src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~4/LRc5W-KsSos height=1 width=1/Similar Posts:U.S. jobless rate downFrance and Germany return to growthToyota poised to slash productionToyota poised to slash global productionNokia vows to

Where were all those bclunkers/b that the government paid to get rid of? A disproportionate number were in New England. The South seems to have not had its share. The government released the state-by-state figures today for the bclunker/b …

Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington Martin Zimmerman — Government officials declared the cash for clunkers program a winner as they released final data Wednesday showing the program sparked the sale of nearly 700,000 new vehicles, boosting a …