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Old 04-11-2009, 04:21 AM   #9
peaceandlove
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Default U.S. government to buy 17,600 American-made autos

This sounds eerily like a bailout to me!
U.S. government to buy 17,600 American-made autos

Friday, April 10, 2009

Washington Business Journal

President Barack Obama said the U.S. government will buy 17,600 new, fuel-efficient (I wonder what that means, sometimes it's wiser to drive the car you have instead of paying an outrageous price for a new vehicle) vehicles from ailing American automakers by June 1.

Obama made the announcement Thursday in a statement issued by the White House, saying the General Services Administration will spend $285 million of Recovery Act Funds to purchase the vehicles for the government fleet.

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