cash for indecisive slow pokes

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"With money running out, $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program will end on Monday. The tally so far: 457000 cars and $1.9 billion in rebates." -- cnnmoney.com. ::sigh:: my old man & i thought we could take advantage of this program because we have a clunker but it turns out that it's not that simple. go figure.

one problem is finding a vehicle we want that gets significant-enough better gas mileage. [nice grammer, eh?] another problem is that we wanted to get the cash for the clunker and also trade the harley, and we're not sure they'd take the clunker & the harley which are together worth around $12,000. the dealer might not want to give that much cash towards one purchase. another problem is that we'd have to discuss this with the dealer and that takes time. i mean, yeah, we could have initiated these discussions and we'd be that much closer to the answer, but we haven't and now we're out of time [again]. another problem is that the program requires us to purchase a new car to get the cash, and we really aren't into the whole new car idea. of course, the clunker cash and the harley cash would bring down the price to a more-reasonable level and the vehicle would not depreciate like mad as we drove it off the lot. but... we couldn't decide what we wanted to do and we didn't talk to the dealer about it and now the program is out of cash again and we didn't make a move. ::sigh:: a final issue goes back to the gas-mileage issue mentioned before... what we really want is a jeep wrangler and for that to qualify in the cash for clunkers, the clunker would have to be getting like 2 miles to the gallon. in conclusion, we're probably better off selling the myriad [and by myriad i mean 4] extra vehicles we have right now and taking that actual cashcash and wrangling a used wrangler.