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ASU research finds that Cash for Clunkers rebates were too high to prompt car upgrades

Green Car Congress

Under the federal program, buyers could get a $3,500 or $4,500 rebate, depending on how much more efficient their new car was. Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2017. Their paper is published in the Journal of Marketing.

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High-Speed Rail Doesn’t Exist in America. Here’s What’s Being Developed.

Baua Electric

Under the Trump administration, high-speed rail is unlikely to receive additional support from the federal government. There should be a federal program, said Rick Harnish, executive director of the High Speed Rail Alliance. But that may be precisely what makes them feasible. High-speed rail 101 Andy Kunz, president of the U.S.

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