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8. Was the cash-for-clunkers program meant to save the earth or the economy? Did it accomplish either?
Save the earth? I don't know about all that. Reduce emissions maybe. [Maybe not, how much energy it takes to produce a lower emissions car, and crush and recycle the clunker versus how much a clunker might use in the rest of of its useful life is debatable.] It did get some people back to work.