LAST AUTO NEWS – BREAKING: HOUSE PASSES $2 BILLION CASH FOR CLUNKERS EXTENSION; PROGRAM ALIVE THROUGH WEEKEND
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The federal government’s Banknote for Clunkers affairs will reside on through the weekend, White House admiral told reporters today. The House of Representatives, meanwhile, anesthetized a admeasurement to add an added $2 billion to the program, afore associates curb this afternoon for an August recess. The Senate is accepted to yield up the admeasurement aboriginal next week, area its fate is uncertain.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters, “If you were planning on traveling to buy a car this weekend application this program, the affairs continues to run,” according to the New York Times. “If you accommodated the requirements of the program, the certificates will be honored.”
Michigan Senator Carl Levin (D) told the Detroit News, “The administering has assured dealers and consumers that rebates for cars already awash beneath the affairs will be accustomed now and through the weekend.”
The Washington Post reports, “The House accustomed a bill Friday afternoon to accommodate $2 billion to continue” the week-old program, which had beat its $1 billion account in just four days. “The 316-109 vote breach Republicans but admiring the abutment of about every Democrat in the chamber.” The allotment “will appear from funds in the already-passed bread-and-butter bang amalgamation that were advised for activity accommodation guarantees. Congress will seek to furnish the activity affairs at a after date.”
The added allotment will appear to a vote in the Senate next week, however, the Post notes, it may face a added difficult alley there. “Conservatives who against both the aboriginal banknote for clunkers affairs and the bang amalgamation as a accomplished may seek to apathetic the process, as ability liberals who wish the program’s breadth standards to be revised upwards.”
Still, some dealers may be afraid to accomplish new banknote for clunkers deals through the weekend, after some added protection. The Detroit Free Press reports, “the arch of the National Automobile Dealers Association warned dealers today that until the money was guaranteed, they could be on the angle for any cash-for-clunkers trades admitting assurances from the Obama administering that deals through today will be honored.”
Some dealers are disturbing artlessly to complete the affairs they accept already agreed to. A abstracted New York Times commodity notes, “Things complete like a complete blend in the showrooms.” Miami dealership advocate Alex Kurkin told the Times “There is complete annoyance beyond the board. As of this morning, [dealers are] not absolutely assured about any deals, and no one can accord them admonition about what they should be cogent their customers.”
The affairs requires that dealers cede the trade-in cars undriveable by active a sodium silicate band-aid through the engine, causing it to seize, afore they can even administer for reimbursement. Salvage backyard abettor Sally Ann Maggio, whose aggregation conducts that action for dealers, told the Times “We accept been afflicted with buzz calls from the dealerships” searching to atom trade-in cars as fast as possible.
Consumers searching to admit a banknote for clunkers accord this weekend should be cautious. We accept heard letters of dealerships allurement barter to assurance two sales affairs – one that will be in force if the government accepts the trade-in, addition if it won’t. Barter should abstain such arrange if at all possible.
Kicking Tires, meanwhile, looks aback on the numbers so far and declares the Banknote for Clunkers agreement a success. Even if the boilerplate trade-in led to just a 4 mpg boost, they note, with 250,000 such transactions, “We’re talking about 850,000 barrels of oil adored per year, or 35.7 actor gallons of gas. We’re talking about 593 actor pounds of carbon dioxide that’s not spewed into the atmosphere….Say what you will about the CARS affairs getting authoritative mess, but when’s the endure time anyone fabricated an ecology appulse like this in one week?”
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