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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on August 21, 2009, 11:40:36 AM
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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Fri Aug-21-09 09:48 AM
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Coming Soon - Cash For Clunkers: Home Appliance Edition
Now that it's ending, you thought you were done hearing about the Cash for Clunkers program, didn't you? Not yet. Coming soon will be a state-administered, federally-funded program providing rebates to consumers who buy Energy Star appliances. Check out Consumer Reports for a preview.
As a part of the Obama Administration's economic stimulus bill to encourage the purchase of energy-efficient appliances, the $300 million appliance-rebate program will soon dole out amounts that could reach $200 if you buy Energy Star-qualified models. Appliances that qualify for the Star should use roughly 10 to 25 percent less energy than the maximum allowed for that category by the Department of Energy, which monitors the Energy Star program.
Unlike the Cash for Clunkers car program, you won't have to turn in your old appliance to get the rebate. But states are expected to have recycling plans for the flood of old appliances the program could unleash. And while the money is coming from Washington, how much you get for which appliance will be a state-by-state decision.
Source (http://blogs.consumerreports.org/home/2009/08/federal-rebates-will-cut-costs-of-appliances-this-fall.html?EXTKEY=I91ECON&CMP=OTC-ConsumeristLinks)
This could really help another sector!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6361166
yay more money from the US Treasury that we don't have. :banghead: :banghead:
What next cash for Cheetos bags?
{Edit to correct Source link}
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How much money do I get if I buy a new washboard and 2 new wash tubs?
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What next cash for Cheetos bags?
Don't mention that! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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I think the DUmmies source blog fell for a "joke" by a republican congress critter. Before the CfC program got underway, one of the gop members suggested that a rebate program for refrigerators would help more people and would help the environment even more in the long run.
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Ya know, I think I'm done supporting the asshats in DC who want to give my money to DUmmies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let the IRS come get me! I'm so frikkin' pissed over this cash for trash I can't stand it! It would be different if they didn't disable the trade-ins, so that some of us, who don't want a new tin can, could use other people's discards. But, OH NO! we have to turn them into slag! What a BRILLIANT idea!!!!!!!!!!!
**** 'em, and the camel they rode in on!!!!!!!!!