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Backseat Driver: Gas companies' trick pricing goes back a long time
I recently spend a pleasant morning in Wakefield at the home of Bob and Diane Smith reporting on his collection of antique automobiles. Bob has six old cars in his garage, including a 1924 Dodge Business Sedan that was the...
September 3, 2009 12:05 pm
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Backseat Driver: N.Y. accident focusing attention on closet alcoholics
Diane Schuler's husband Daniel's continues to deny she was drunk when she drove two miles in the wrong direction on New York's Taconic State Parkway late last month. The bizarre episode ended when she slammed her minivan head on into...
September 3, 2009 12:05 pm
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Dealers should be paid on 'Clunkers' by Sept. 30
WASHINGTON -- The government says it has approved $500 million in reimbursements to auto dealers for car sales under the Cash for Clunkers program, according to The Associated Press. A Transportation official says more than 15 percent of the submissions...
September 3, 2009 12:01 pm
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Backseat Driver: Cash for Clunkers a modest success in cutting gas demand
The numbers have not been finalized but the Cash for Clunkers program resulted in some 700,000 old gas guzzlers being replaced by newer, more efficient vehicles. While the program stimulated auto sales to an annualized rate of 14 million vehicles...
September 3, 2009 10:50 am
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Clunker Program Spurred August Sales
DETROIT -- Auto sales perked up in August because of cash for clunkers, but both General Motors and Chrysler struggled after emerging from bankruptcy protection, according to The New York Times. Total industry sales in the United States increased 1...
September 2, 2009 1:38 pm
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