CNN Reports Car Price Spike Coming Due to ‘Success’ of Clunkers

By Julia A. Seymour

What is it about consequences that the liberal media and government simply cannot grasp?
CNN “Newsroom” admitted Aug. 27 that new car prices are “expected” to go up as a result of the government Cash for Clunkers giveaway.
Heidi Collins told viewers, “The success of the Cash for Clunkers program may be pushing new car prices higher. Dealerships are expected to have lower inventory over the next few months, meaning higher prices for consumers. Around 700,000 people took advantage of the Cash for Clunkers program.”
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“There is also an ironic unintended consequence. Car companies have cut the number of vehicles coming off their assembly lines in response to the recession, which is leading to spot shortages. This is particularly the case for fuel-efficient models the program was suppose to encourage consumers to buy. As prices for these autos rise, buyers will inevitably use their cash-for-clunker dollars to buy less-efficient models and thus crush one of the touted environmental benefits of the program,” Anwyl said.

Lefties always ignore the reality of how the law of Supply and demand works, which is the reason their social engineering schemes never work.

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  • http://Array robert108

    Rigging the market with subsidies didn’t “make money” for the auto dealers; it just transferred it from all the taxpayers. No value was created, so it was simply another Obama bubble.
    Smoke and mirrors.

  • sayanything-4625

    Cons hate capitalism and hate it when Auto manufacturers and dealers start making money.

    They root for failure and bankruptcy so they can blame Obama and take advantage of other peoples hardships to advance themselves.

    Dude you’re a fool. How can I root for bankruptcy, they were already bankrupt and have been for quite some time. How is it capitalism to give massive grants and bailouts to companies? Hell, give me a couple of billion, then give my customers $4500 in subsidies to buy my product and if I don’t make money then I deserve to go under. Please explain how this is capitalism? Not one year ago you fools were complaining about corporate welfare and now you do this. Nice!

  • realist

    The free market decided they wanted to charge more for automobiles in order to be more profitable.

    That is the free market at work that you hate so much. Just because something happened before it doesn’t change it from being a free market decision.

    The free market has nothing to do with it. It’s a textbook example of government failure.

  • sayanything-4625

    The free market decided they wanted to charge more for automobiles in order to be more profitable.

    That is the free market at work that you hate so much. Just because something happened before it doesn’t change it from being a free market decision.

    And I bet you didn’t say that about the farmers who gladly took the government hand out, did ya?

    I suppose you mean the bio fuel debacle. I was against that just like I’m against this. Massive subsidies are not the free market. Trying to pass this off as a “free market” decision is laughable. So prices have been depressed and they still couldn’t sell cars. Government gives a subsidy and cars move. No stock leads to higher prices. If it truly is a “free market” decision sales should stay the same or increase. (That’s how you know you have set the right price). If the prices go down or we start hearing about sales you’ll know that you were wrong.

  • mplsbob

    Wait a couple months and tell me how the dealerships are doing after gov’ts manipulation of our free market. Let me give you a prediction, the sales will suck.

  • sayanything-4625

    Housing costs are going to increase as well. I bet you hate that idea too!

    What costs are you referring to?

    The Housing market is in a crash.

    http://www.realtor.org/rmodaily.nsf/pages/News2009082102?OpenDocument

    What Has the Housing Crash Cost Americans?
    How much real wealth have Americans lost so far in the real estate crash?

    The Federal Reserve estimates that the total market value of U.S. homes fell 18 percent from $21.9 trillion to $17.9 trillion or about $13,000 per person from the end of 2006 through March 31, 2009.

    The Fed also estimates that homeowner’s equity has declined 40 percent from the peak and now accounts for just 41.4 percent of real estate values. By comparison, after the last slump in the 1990s, home equity levels remained in the high 50s.

    This collapse in equity makes it difficult for potential buyers to sell their homes and trade up, which many experts say will weigh heavily on the housing recovery.

    The market will go up eventually but for now its down. I would like for the housing market to go up so the value of my house will go up too. What was the point of your rant?

  • realist

    Good point mplsbob – I hope that the commissioned salesmen know how to budget, as it’s going to be pretty lean for a while.

  • HG

    That is the free market at work that you hate so much.

    Housing costs are going to increase as well. I bet you hate that idea too! Don’t you? You commie, pinko socialists.

    Poor depraved soul, so many lies H can’t discern between his imagination and reality. This Obamacare debacle has him all tied in mental knots.

  • robert108

    One more thing, people: The C4C program was originally pitched as an environmental program, not an economic stimulus program. Since Americans generally don’t buy the AGW myth, Obama has simply remessaged it. He’s wrong about that, too.

  • jimmypop

    yup, now that they have less people wanting new cars, its time for the prices to go up…. holy crap.

  • badlands4

    I can’t find a reliable source. Is it true that people who bought the cars through the clunkers subsidy are going to have to pay taxes on that money, the govt considering it regular income?

    Surely not?? Can you imagine the nasty surprise that is going to be if true?

  • Buzz

    What you mean to say, is that the cars might not be discounted as much. Or do you actually want us to believe that people will be paying more than sticker for a Focus?

    Silly con, get a clue.

  • robert108

    It’s simple, little buzzy, but way over your empty head. If you can read, look up the Law of Supply and Demand in a beginning econ textbook. Educate yourself, moron.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Big 180, it’s telling that you never really abandoned CNN as a reliable news source.

    What other of your hypocrisies will you unveil for us today?

  • Hannitized

    CNN “Newsroom” admitted Aug. 27 that new car prices are “expected” to go up as a result of the government Cash for Clunkers giveaway.

    Cons hate capitalism and hate it when Auto manufacturers and dealers start making money.

    They root for failure and bankruptcy so they can blame Obama and take advantage of other peoples hardships to advance themselves.

    Social Darwinism and then they pretend to hate Darwin and his theories as well.

    Have you ever seen a more dishonest group of hacks than the RepubliCONS?

  • robert108

    Little stalker: You lie; I don’t regard any particular news source as “reliable”; it depends on whether they tell the truth or not in any particular instance. The game of trying to discredit with personal attack is all yours.
    Even Al Jazeera might possibly tell the truth about something, and you might even tell the truth about something some day.
    Hasn’t happened yet, in either case.

    Moron little H: Govt subsidies are State “capitalism”, which has nothing to do with either the free enterprise system or fiscal conservatism. Ignorant again.

  • HG

    Cons hate capitalism and hate it when Auto manufacturers and dealers start making money.

    Free market capitalism has absolutely nothing to do with government subsidized automobiles at the expense of our grandchildrens earnings.

  • Hannitized

    Free market capitalism has absolutely nothing to do with government subsidized automobiles at the expense of our grandchildrens earnings.

    The free market decided they wanted to charge more for automobiles in order to be more profitable.

    That is the free market at work that you hate so much. Just because something happened before it doesn’t change it from being a free market decision.

    And I bet you didn’t say that about the farmers who gladly took the government hand out, did ya?

  • Hannitized

    Here is another shocker for you, in advance, dip shits.

    Housing costs are going to increase as well. I bet you hate that idea too! Don’t you? You commie, pinko socialists.

  • robert108

    The free market decided they wanted to charge more for automobiles in order to be more profitable.

    Wrong again, moron! You obviously are ignorant about what the free market is. C4C was govt market-rigging, and the taxpayers who unwillingly paid for it had no freedom at all to refuse participation.
    Again, you have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about.

    For the stunningly uneducated, profit is the reason for the existence of business; it’s not something added later. That’s ignorant Marxist nonsense. Without profit, there would be no jobs; all labor would be at the subsistence level. Profit is what you are willing to pay for having someone else make your stuff for you. Do you know how to make a car? Would it run? How long would it last?
    You are an idiot, little H.

  • robert108

    Housing costs are going to increase as well.

    Only through govt taxation and restrictive regulation. Left to market forces, housing prices will drop until the market is cleared out of all the toxic assets created by thirty years of Dem market rigging for social engineering purposes.
    Again, you know nothing, and it shows with your every comment.

  • Bat One

    Cons hate capitalism and hate it when Auto manufacturers and dealers start making money.

    Actually, that would be your fellow traveler, Dino.

    Incidentally, I notice that like Dino, you seem to get more voluble, more irrational, more prone to adolescent name-calling, and less articulate and less comprehensible when you’re losing an argument. You hyper-ventilate, the digital equivalent of slurred speech, and your comments become less cogent. Is that a congenital condition, or is it somehow related to the “progressive” ideology and that “Kum-Ba-Yah” delusion you two share?

    I only ask, because you ought to know that the distraction of all that effort to make any sense out of what you’re saying… or trying to… makes it a lot easier to just ignore your comment entirely. Is that really the response you’re looking for?

  • robert108

    BTW, moron little H: the free market doesn’t “decide” anything; the free people making free choices make the decisions they want to make. You lack even the most basic understanding of this concept. You are stuck in your centralized, collectivist thinking, and have no concept of the freedom of individual independence.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    The free market decided they wanted to charge more for automobiles in order to be more profitable.

    That is the free market at work that you hate so much. Just because something happened before it doesn’t change it from being a free market decision.

    The free market that propped up failing businesses with billions in gifts that will never be paid back? The free market that allowed these companies to bypass their creditors in bankrupsty court and keep their assets? The free market that sent out 4500 a car, artificially propping up demand?

    This isn’t free market anymore than social security, medicare, welfare and the like are free market.

    The government propped up the dealers so that they didn’t have to drop prices just to sell cars. Now, with a 4500 dollar subsidy, it’s the equivalent of dealers dropping the price…without dropping the price. And since all the “clunkers” that were brought in have to be destroyed, they can’t be resold, dramatically reducing used car supplies. With artificially reduced supply and artifically increased demand, the dealers are raising the prices, and probably hoping that, like college, gov’t will step in and deem cars too expensive to afford and subsidize them heavier.

    And with all these people rehired, what happens when the demand drops again? Most of them will be right back out of a job.

    This is as much market forces as Christopher Hitchens is Catholic.

    And I bet you didn’t say that about the farmers who gladly took the government hand out, did ya?

  • sayanything-6955

    Wait a couple months and tell me how the dealerships are doing after gov’ts manipulation of our free market. Let me give you a prediction, the sales will suck.

    That sir, you can take to the bank!

    And also, The unintended consequences that will follow, Such as auto repair shops business’s declining, Auto parts suppliers business’s declining, Less vehicles to repair=less mechanics and parts people, Which=more unemployment, Which=Less tax revenue.

    All because of government meddling!!

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