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At first glance it seemed like the cash for clunker bike promotion at Daniel Boone Cycles was little more than a spoof on the government program to get some advertising for the bicycle shop. Turns out ...

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says that Cash for Clunkers “has worked better than any other stimulus program that was conceived.” It started off slowly on the first of July, and then exploded ...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats narrowly defeated a GOP effort Thursday to kill a $1 billion "cash for clunkers" program that would provide government incentives of $3,500 to $4,500 to motorists who ...

Even those who thought it up were surprised by how successful the “Cash for clunkers” program was. Not me. I knew it would be huge. This wasn’t because I thought it would be so easy for people to take ...

But the federal program quickly changed that rule, he said, so that the dealers could get approval before seizing up the trade-in clunkers' engines. "That was a positive change," Motzkin said of the ...

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President Obama on Friday signed a bill extending the wildly popular "cash for clunkers" plan after the Senate approved a $2 billion refill to the rebate program. An initial $1 billion was used up ...

It Kills Many Birds with One Stone says the Baltimore Sun. "100 percent of the cash for clunkers money is going directly into the economy, and that's not its only benefit. It supports an industry that ...