Likewise, the notorious clash-for-clunkers program was nothing if not a scheme to stimulate auto consumption.
Provide more temporary tax incentives like the cash for clunkers program or the first time homebuyers credit?
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So at this point, we don't see or have plans for redoing the cash for clunkers program.
Roberts pointed to the Cash For Clunkers program, which he said had a solid spurt before it finally began to fade out.
And with the cash for clunkers program as well as other recent environmental initiatives, there could be more IPOs in the alternative energy area.
The Japanese automaker sold 205, 342 units in March, a 1% increase and its highest monthly figure since the Cash for Clunkers program back in August 2009.
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You can reduce your chances of becoming a statistic by getting the most safety for your dollar -- and with the Clunkers program you can now do that more affordably.
"Manufacturing led the recovery last year, but partially due to temporary factors, " says Huether, who cited tax credits for purchases of homes and efficient appliances, the Cash For Clunkers program, and the stimulus package.
Earlier this year, Russia initiated a cash-for-clunkers program.
His nationalization of major US corporations like General Motors, his cash-for-clunkers program to stimulate the US auto industry and his massive encroachments on the banking and financial industries have done nothing to increase economic growth in the US and indeed, unemployment has reached generational highs.
As a co-architect of the federal Cash for Clunkers program with the Center for American Progress and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and adviser to various congressional offices on the issue, it is gratifying to see how quickly it has been adopted by the American people.
But Congress has slashed the loan guarantee program's budget to pay for other priorities, such as last year's "Cash for Clunkers" program to boost auto sales.
As is well known now, Congress recently introduced a "Cash for Clunkers" program meant to stimulate demand for more energy-efficient automobiles.
The booming "Cash for Clunkers" program may mean good things for unemployment.
Mr. Redman also shelved trying to use the federal "cash for clunkers" program to buy new vehicles, in part because the health-care debate was at full boil.
That is why the Administration is committed to taking every responsible measure to spur job creation measures ranging from the "Cash for Clunkers" program last summer, to the extensions of unemployment insurance and additional business tax cuts in the bill the President signed in November, to ideas explored at the Jobs Forum in December.
While the impressive numbers are in large part due to the flood of buyers last August who wanted to get in on the "cash for clunkers" stimulus program before it expired, there is still enough evidence of quarter to quarter growth in sales for the companies to assuage investors' earlier fears for American auto makers.
That could mean that the impact of Cash for Clunkers will continue even after the program eventually ends.
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Auto industry experts estimate that 750, 000 clunkers will be scrapped as a result of the program, leading to the sale of 750, 000 new cars.
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Cash for Clunkers actually helps all of us -- even those of us who do not participate in the program or work in the auto industry.
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