Grading Cash for Clunkers: Give It an E for Effort
Now that Uncle Sam is no longer a back-seat driver for the auto business, this is a good time to pull over and remember one of his signal acts while in the car.
Cash For Clunkers
Cash for Clunkers Was a Clunker
In a discouraging post mortem, it turns out neither the U.S. economy nor the environment really benefited from the 2009 “cash for clunkers” car-trading scheme.
Graphic Art — Automatrix
Graph shows that the U.S. government's effort to shift car buyers to higher-efficiency vehicles was anything but a "Buy American" campaign.
Government Rebates - The Uneasy Case For Subsidizing Energy Efficiency
Rebates for energy-efficient appliances don't stand up to the economic analysis that, until now, no one bothered to do.
Gentlemen, Start Your Clunkers
A stimulus package launches with low hopes for qualitatively changing the pace of car buying and little real expectation of cleaning up the air.
Cash for Clunkers: Invitation to Fraud?
The Germans already have a program for taking gas guzzlers off the road and replacing them with shiny new cars, but there are some bumps in the road.