Comments on: Stimulus Bill Provides Little Help to Today’s Car Buyers

By: rajkumar

rajkumar — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:30:00 +0000

very nice

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:15:31 +0000

suck a dick

By: Disgruntled

Disgruntled — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:09:35 +0000

This is such a fracking joke. Spurring auto sales is just what we need – get the spouting clunkers off the road.

By: Mr. Awesome

Mr. Awesome — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:37:32 +0000

This is so sweet. I love the looks of this car.

By: hsr0601

hsr0601 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:51:25 +0000

There is an inventor from Wisconsin who invented an all-electric car in the form of a Ford Ranger that was shown at the KARE 11 fair booth at the 2008 Minnesota State Fair.

It is capable of reaching 100 miles per hour in speed, has a range of 300 miles, charges in 10 minutes and is pollution free with only the pollution that is done to make the electricity to charge it.

The inventor of this invention has, to my understanding, approached Ford Motor Company with his invention. The Ford Motor Company, in my estimation, should latch onto this idea, pronto.

My understanding is there are members of Congress who are trying to shoot down this idea of an electric car.

Where is there any common sense in this country?

By: Debra

Debra — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:59:31 +0000

Yes, it does look good for 3 wheelers, FINALLY, every other tax credit eliminated 3 wheelers. They always include specifications for vehicles you can’t buy. SO, why bother. At least now, a usable tax credit. (in some ways I agree it’s just like all the rest of the credits) But as for me and my house: We are celebrating a small victory. At least something being made now is eligible.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:29:04 +0000

It seems that ZAP will be one of the biggest benefactors of the electric car tax credit. They are one of the only companies in production and have vehicles available for immediate shipment. see http://www.zapworld.com

By: Big Green Machine42

Big Green Machine42 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:15:03 +0000

Forget about hybrids. There’s a new electric car coming out very soon.

Wheego Electric Cars, a division of RTEV, is officially launching its U.S. dealer network. The first car will be the Wheego Whip, which is most certainly not a smart fortwo, and the plan is to find 50 dealers in America who want to sell them.

Wheego has an exciting line of electric cars. My driving experience was — I could not drive it enough. The following article has more
info on these great electric cars: http://www.alternativeenergynewswire.com/electric-cars#electric-cars

By: Samie

Samie — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:37:46 +0000

RandalH, Boom Boom, and Dom
We can debate raising taxes on gasoline but first what has be known to all in the auto industry is to somehow find new ways to make more money on smaller cars or develop a business model to address smaller profits on newer vehicles. That’s not easy and to add some teeth into this should be the use of updated CAFE regulations. I say this because we will see folks like GM and maybe Ford with their hands out wanting more loans to stay afloat in the future if say right now we increase gas taxes to somehow aid auto sales. I hope Obama w/ what he says is retooling address this problem first before possibly using some other incentives along with CAFE.

By: RandalH

RandalH — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:21:45 +0000

Boom Boom and Dom are correct. Increase the gasoline tax and offer a direct, immediate, stimulative tax rebate for buying a car that gets greater than 35 mpg. This would partially offset the tax increase, stimulate the automotive industry, and reduce oil consumption. It makes so much sense, you wonder why they won't do it. I think the reason is that the politically influential Big Three don't want to sell small, efficient cars because they don't like the profit margins. They ceded that market to the Japanese, Koreans, and Europeans long ago.

Oh, and if you want to favor a particular technology, that's fine, but that should be on top of a partially offsetting rebate for generally improved mileage. If anything has been proven in the past year or so, it's that the quickest way to affect gasoline consumption is the raise the price.