On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:42 AM, B Feddish wrote:

OR maybe given
> allot of those good used cars to people who need them to get to work.
> A
> $4500 used car can be quite a nice car.
>>> Alan Felder
>>> Austin TX
>>> 82 Diesel Westy
>>>

If your point is to get decent vehicles into the hands of folks who
can't otherwise afford them, then most of the clunkers turned in would
be a liability, not a benefit to those folks.  A good used car for them,
yes, but not one that only gets 17 or less mpg combined city/highway
(meaning less city), and not expensive to maintain vehicles like
vanagons.  An old Corolla, or Civic, yes.  But those don't qualify for
the clunker program.  Dave Mc