EPA Revision + Cash For Clunkers = Bait & Switch

Consumers are finding out that their cars that were considered "clunkers" under the Cash for Clunkers Program last week, aren't bad enough to qualify this week because of an EPA revision. This sounds like a bait and switch to get people looking for cars and get them into the dealerships, just to be pressured into buying a vehicle without the government promise backing them.

If this isn't a vanilla bait and switch I don't know what is! Anyone Heading the Cash for Clunkers Program has an obligation to contact the EPA to revoke this revision. This revision only rewards the people who chose the worst kinds of vehicles for the roads. The Cash for Clunkers Program was a somewhat decent idea, but as usual good things get tangled in the Washington bureaucracy! I feel bad for the people that aren't finding out until they are sitting down with the high pressure salesman as he tells them "Sorry, your car doesn't qualify for Cash for Clunkers."

http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/28/autos/clunker_mpg_switch/index.htm?postversion=2009072811