Jeff and Alex want to thank Joe Pistell for designing this survey.
Joe is the Marketing Director for the Sun Auto Group and a BIG participant on the DealerRefresh Blog. He is also one of the Moderators for the Inventory Control and Display section of the DealerRefresh forums.
This survey is designed to create factual environmental impact figures based on actual dealership business. When completed, it will become a press release, so be sure to get your Dealership’s name in for some SEO exposure!
Does Cash for Clunkers save 193 MILLION GALLONS OF GAS A YEAR?
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Every Dealer and Automaker under the sun is seeing excellent traffic and strong sales from the Cash for Clunkers (CARS) program. We all agree, the c4c rebate is a huge hit, but, just how green is the CARS program?
Does the CARS Program save 193 MILLION GALLONS OF GAS A YEAR? Let’s run some hypothetical numbers and see what we have.
- Average Clunker MPG: 17MPG
- Average NEW car MPG: 24MPG
- Average miles driven annually: 15,000
- Destroyed Clunker drinks 882 gallons of gas a year
- New, replacement car drinks 625 gallons of gas a year
- Cash for Clunker Program saves 257 gallons of gas each year, per unit sold.
- c4c Sales Estimate: 750,000 units
257 gallons times 750,000 sales gives us 193 MILLION GALLONS OF GAS SAVED…EACH YEAR. That’s 4.6 million barrels of oil we DON”T have to import (42 gals gas p/bbl of oil).
LESS Co2 too…
Using these projections, each new car produces roughly 4 tons LESS Co2 than the clunker. We’re looking at REMOVING 3million tons of Co2 per year.
Lastly, just how many years of life remains in these clunkers? 1,2,3,4?? Multiply the final results by the projected years of life remaining.
Want to Help?
We need your numbers NOW. Review your C4C sales to date, create 2 lists.
List #1 is to find the MPG of your clunker trade-ins and average them.
List #2 is do the same for your new sales and average them too
(use the combined city/highway average)
Visit the EPA fuel economy page
Visit our CARS Program Survey page
When we gather enough data, we’ll submit a Press Release and see what happens!!!
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