I saw different stats. The government treats a Ford F-150 2X4 and the 4X4 as two different vehicles if the 4X4 has two different engines then the government splits it up again. The Japanese win because they had fewer choices and therefore a better chance at winning the top spot with the government numbers. If the F-150 and the other vehicles were treated as one vehicle no matter the style, the ranking comes out different.

In all vehicles purchased from the clunker program:
1.Toyota: 18.9 per cent
2.GM: 18.7 per cent
3.Ford: 15.4 per cent
4.Honda: 12.9 per cent
5.Chrysler: 9.1 per cent

–The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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Oh my gosh. The government screwed up. Who could’ve guessed?

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Edmunds says the cost of the marginal purchase if over $20,000. So it cost us 3 bill to move sales forward six months or less. And other purchases were lost so the net was zero

except the govt does not work for free.

Best economic example – we used a bucket with holes in it to move water from the deep end to the shallow end, while losing some on the pool deck. net GDP was minus.

Or look at the economic example of breaking windows.

congress and house insanity

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