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Cash for Clunkers May Cost Up to $45,354 Per Vehicle

As noted above the program permanently removes vehicles from the road. Without the program the same vehicles would be recycled for parts, or sold as, “used”. Cash for Clunkers is the only car buying program to have ever systematically destroyed the trade-in vehicle… It effectively sets up a chop-shop and a grey market to salvage anything from seats to wheels, axles, calipers, rear or side view mirrors, auto body doors, hoods and the like, regardless of …. At this time the dealers are petitioning for exemption to at least scab the engines and transmissions, before the vehicles are taken to be destroyed/recycled...

The Edmund’s figure does not factor the removal of the vehicle from used vehicle inventory, nor consider the residual effect of generating used parts sales. Vehicle parts often cost three times the value of the auto when new. Therefore, as long as the figure of 250,000 vehicles is used of which 200,000 are ordinarily trade-ins anyhow, the fact is on paper, each vehicle will be removed from service.

Think Green

It's a Bull Market in Government Intervention

9/19/08

Leading % Gainers

Freddie Mac 6.42% Non Cumulative Perpetual Pref Shs (FRE-T) +744.95%

Freddie Mac 6.02% Non-Cumulative Perpetual Pref Shs (FRE-X) +300.00%

Freddie Mac Variable Rate Non Cumulative Pref Shs (FRE-M) +228.57%

Mid-Year Report: Is a Summer Turn-around Still Possible?

It's not the speculators so much as the need to force change in the energy sector to alternative energy sources. Price can be driven by those that seek to gain from the evolution in order to gain a presence of this market share economy by providing alternative energy products.

On a local level, sure, some can buy/sell heating oil and make mega bucks. Only, at the same time more home owners are switching to other sources for heat and heaving the oil burners... It's a scenario that is often repeated where local energy supply can better supplement the past standards of fossil fuels.

We might be on the verge of a conspiracy where the work place is compromised in order to keep more Dads’ at home. The more choice that is given to values and the cost of those values, then the means to attain them will be the efficiency sought. (energy tax credits and grants)

The mid-year report is good only left inconclusive. It fails to mention a target and the goal for the year. The positions have to lock on a goal to properly hedge the valuation of the work place in which they must earn their livelihoods or risk cost that are greater than the risk reward they are positioned within now.

How can a 42% return be applied to restructuring their company’s energy needs, and how much will restructuring cost, is the ultimate value of their investments return. Right now, based on today’s returns your energy dollars might see you through to next spring.

Mid-Year Report: Is a Summer Turn-around Still Possible?

If one is going to speculate in energy then why not anticipate an energy revolution? One that goes in the right direction to begin with...