Comments on: Cash for Clunkers May Not Benefit Consumers or the Environment http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2009/06/30/cash-for-clunkers-may-not-benefit-consumers-or-the-environment/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:08:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: POWinCA http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2009/06/30/cash-for-clunkers-may-not-benefit-consumers-or-the-environment/#comment-2819 POWinCA Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:12:45 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=829#comment-2819 As usual, these laws are written and passed by LAWYERS who know nothing about economics or the environment. Read about how the Cash for Clunkers damages both the environment and the economy. This is a Win-Win for Obama and the UAW and a Lose-Lose-Lose-.... for nearly everyone else. http://powinca.blogspot.com/2009/08/cash-for-carbon-dioxide.html As usual, these laws are written and passed by LAWYERS who know nothing about economics or the environment.

Read about how the Cash for Clunkers damages both the environment and the economy. This is a Win-Win for Obama and the UAW and a Lose-Lose-Lose-…. for nearly everyone else.

http://powinca.blogspot.com/2009/08/cash-for-carbon-dioxide.html

]]> By: Patrick Butler http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2009/06/30/cash-for-clunkers-may-not-benefit-consumers-or-the-environment/#comment-2737 Patrick Butler Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:21:04 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=829#comment-2737 Just what I expected to be the case. I'm pleased to have numbers put to examples. As a general political truism about cars, whenever the costs of using cars--such exhaust and CO2, and the production of accident risk--government response is to act on the expense of car owning. This is ably demonstrated here. In my field of automobile insurance, the cost of accidents is directly proportional to car using, while premiums are a cost of car owning.(Buy another car and pay another premium cr-year unit.) This mismatch produces the worst sort of perverse failure in the low-income market, as documented on the website www.centspermilenow.org. Just what I expected to be the case. I’m pleased to have numbers put to examples.

As a general political truism about cars, whenever the costs of using cars–such exhaust and CO2, and the production of accident risk–government response is to act on the expense of car owning. This is ably demonstrated here.

In my field of automobile insurance, the cost of accidents is directly proportional to car using, while premiums are a cost of car owning.(Buy another car and pay another premium cr-year unit.) This mismatch produces the worst sort of perverse failure in the low-income market, as documented on the website http://www.centspermilenow.org.

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