{"id":9357,"date":"2009-08-11T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=9357"},"modified":"2009-08-11T10:04:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T17:04:43","slug":"how-green-is-cash-for-clunkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/08\/11\/how-green-is-cash-for-clunkers\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#8220;Green&#8221; is Cash for Clunkers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-081109\/2009_08_11_jacoby.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-081109\/2009_08_11_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.theautochannel.com\/news\/2009\/08\/11\/473779.1.jpg\"\/>On Friday, the Senate approved additional federal funding for the Car Allowance Rebate System, more popularly known as \u201ccash for clunkers.\u201d Originally initiated in late July with a one billion dollar budget, the program has proved to be a boon for the struggling auto industry in the U.S. Pitched to the public as a way to improve the economy as well as the environment by encouraging trade-ins of older vehicles for new more fuel efficient ones, \u201ccash for clunkers\u201d has certainly boosted sales by an estimated 220,000 units. The program\u2019s environmental impact, however, has been much more of a subject of contention. Some critics say that the credit guidelines could have been much more stringent as to encourage more consumers to purchase extremely fuel efficient vehicles. Environmentalists have also pointed out that the three billion dollars in federal funding for \u201ccash for clunkers\u201d has been allocated from stimulus money dedicated to the Department of Energy for renewable energy projects. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Henry Jacoby, Co-Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the Senate approved additional federal funding for the Car Allowance Rebate System, more popularly known as \u201ccash for clunkers.\u201d Originally initiated in late July with a one billion dollar budget, the program has proved to be a boon for the struggling auto industry in the U.S. Pitched to the public as a way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}