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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