Late numbers on clunkers

This issue has been reported on, on more than one occasion on this blog:

Remarks:

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/28/autos/clunkers_analysis/index.htm

Clunkers: Taxpayers paid $24,000 per car

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Auto sales analysts at Edmunds.com say the pricey program resulted in relatively few additional car sales.

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, but only 125,000 of those were vehicles that would not have been sold anyway, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the automotive Web site Edmunds.com.

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The Cash for Clunkers program gave car buyers rebates of up to $4,500 if they traded in less fuel-efficient vehicles for new vehicles that met certain fuel economy requirements. A total of $3 billion was allotted for those rebates.

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Bush Preemptive Strike Doctrine Under Review, May Be Discarded

(Bloomberg.com)
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Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon is reviewing the Bush administration’s doctrine of preemptive military strikes with an eye to modifying or possibly ending it.

The international environment is “more complex” than when President George W. Bush announced the policy in 2002, Kathleen Hicks, the Defense Department’s deputy undersecretary for strategy, said in an interview. “We’d really like to update our use-of-force doctrine to start to take account for that.”

Bush outlined his doctrine of preemptive strike in a speech at West Point in June 2002. He elevated it to a formal strategy that September. For the first time in a doctrine, the U.S. expressed the right to attack a threat that was gathering, not just imminent.

‘Will Not Hesitate’

The doctrine says the U.S. “will not hesitate to act alone, if necessary, to exercise our right of self-defense by acting preemptively.

Dyson launches the bladeless electric fan

Here's something interesting!

Clunky technology that never changes somehow interests me.

Now who's going to challenge the most arcane hold-over of them all... The windshielf wiper

The Dyson Air Multiplier fan – which looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie – uses advancements in airflow engineering instead of traditional blades to ‘multiply’ air 15 times and push out 119 gallons of smooth and uninterrupted air every second.

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Conventional electric fans have gone largely unchanged for years,” notes Mr Dyson. “The fundamental problem has remained the same for more than 125 years – the blades ‘chop’ the air creating an uneven airflow and unpleasant buffeting.”

Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5ba62a00-b755-11de-9812-00144feab49a.html