Cash for Clunkers Environmental Impact Survey

[Joe Pistell]

Special thanks to all our participating dealers!

Reporters. Here are the survey participants that are OK to contact:

Joe Najar
joseph.najar@silverstarauto.com
Honda of Thousand Oaks
www.hondaofto.com

Alex Snyder
axsnyder@checkeredflag.com
Checkered Flag
checkeredflag.com

Jim Graves
jim.graves@economyhonda.com
ECONOMY HONDA SUPERSTORE
economyhonda.com

Steven Moore
stevemoore@sandyspringsford.com
Sandy Springs Ford
sandyspringsford.com

Gerald Hand
geraldhand@hotmail.com
O'Neal Auto Group

 

[Jeff Kershner]

So everyone knows, the survey is still open.

We will gather data as long as it is coming in. We would love to get your numbers.

 

[Derek Hammond]

I still can't get over that these cars are supposed to go to the junk yard. I spoke with a buddy the other day pulling radios and other parts off cars in the C4C lot. If you've ever been to a junk yard to get parts you know how bad for the environment these places are. Oil and anti-freeze seeping into the ground is no good.

Overall, C4C is nothing more than an stimulus package for the automotive industry, another way to move old inventory. At least that's all I see. My biggest fear is this will bring a lot of future potential buyers into the buying cycle and result in a lull in the coming months.

 

[pete condit]

C4C will prove to be yet another government boondoggle.

Dealers will have one good month. The 4th quarter, IMO, will be one of the worst in the history of the industry since anyone that was even considering buying in the next year or so, just did.

This will wreak havoc with dealers.

Hope you folks saved all your commision checks from july, cause it's gonna be a pretty bad christmas for you.

As for the alleged fuel savings, once you figure in the costs to produce extra new cars, scrap perfectly good ones and the increase in miles driven by the former clunker owners, I think you will find the actual decrease to be pretty meager.

This money would have been much better spent improving public transportation and improving roadways to promote bicycle use.

I ride my bike over 12 miles to work somedays. Parts of this trip are on roads ill suited to bicycles with poor/non existent shoulders. Improving such roads to make them bicycle friendly would result in increased bicycle commuting which would also help the country's obesity problem.