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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Yes, it saddened me that many of the 'clunker' trucks were newer and nicer 
and certainly more fuel efficient  than what I'm driving (1989 F150).

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] cash for clunkers anyone?


> To me, in addition to what you wrote, it seems like such a waste to see
> perfectly good transportation going to waste.  I understand getting rid
> of 'guzzlers', but the cars I've seen certainly were not what I would
> call clunkers and I know my own vehicles would have qualified for the
> program.  The intention was to stimulate buying, and it did that, but
> low income folks and middle class folks on unemployment surely could not
> have gotten new transportation.  Who needs a new car payment when you've
> lost income as it is?  Seems to me that at least some of these vehicles
> could be used for government work/agencies or charitable groups like
> Meals on Wheels.  I know quite a few people just neighbors on my road
> that could use any form of transportation.
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> > The thing I didn't like about the Cash for Clunkers program is that
> > it benefited foreign car manufacturerers more than US-owned
> > manufacturers.
>
> --
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> protecting your freedom on the USS Key West, currently deployed
> somewhere in the Pacific and/or Indian Ocean.  Go Navy!
> EarthNSky Farm, NW Georgia, USA
>
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