It is the typical senseless political decision made by Washington. Why does someone in 2009 who buys a new car get $3500-4500 from the government when the same person a year ago got nothing. Also does this not just potentially create a bit of an artificial market that cannot last forever. What happens when it stops? How much benefit will this actually do for the enviroment? Are we not just encouraging people to get into debt for a new car instead of maintaining their older vehicle? Debt is our problem, but it seems as if the government is solving the problem by over leveraging itself and encouraging us to have just one more drink of debt.