Comments on: "Cash for Clunkers" – Clunker by Country Vizualization

By: Wakefield Tolbert

Wakefield Tolbert — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:18:37 +0000

OK. Took me longer than I wanted to swat at 10,000 other things going on, but here you are!

http://wakepedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/winners-clunkers-cash-for-flunkers-ii.html

By: Some Interesting Global Cash-For-Clunkers Stats | CarVersation

Some Interesting Global Cash-For-Clunkers Stats | CarVersation — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:43:45 +0000

[...] discovered this visualization on Political Math Blog, which shows which countries supplied the most clunkers, and which ones picked up some extra sales [...]

By: politicalmath

politicalmath — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:46:59 +0000

Where are you finding that? It's definitely not in the Excel file (I had to do some scraping and sorting through the data to get the numbers I got). I see that there is a new report called "MFG Origin", but that seems to be a phantom report at the moment (goes to a 404 page). I did a quick check and Toyota alone sold 130,000+ new vehicles. If you grab the big Japanese 3 (Toyota, Honda, Nissan), you get about 280,000 new cars sold. (source).

By: Justin Hyde

Justin Hyde — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:13:07 +0000

I appreciate the work that goes into these graphics, so I’d like to make a friendly point: The database contains the info necessary to determine the country of origin of the vehicles sold & crushed under cash for clunkers. When you run that analysis, Japanese-built vehicles accounted for 115,400 vehicles sold under C4C. (There’s a couple of records that seem a little garbled.)

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By: KB

KB — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:45:27 +0000

Hey Political Math,

I have written books for O’Reilly (and Wiley, and Pearson, etc), thought you might want to touch base outside of this public venue. I assume you can track me down via the email you should see on this post.

Are you working as a for hire to one of the authors? Are you one of the authors? Who’s the editor? Simon? Brian?

By: politicalmath

politicalmath — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:59:10 +0000

Yes, feel free to use this image. Just let me know when you do so I can keep track (for bragging purposes).

By: Wakefield Tolbert

Wakefield Tolbert — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:05:57 +0000

Also, and giving full attribution first (I’ll run you a rough draft copy if you like) I would certainly like to borrow and post that handy graphic regarding CFC.

Very compelling.

Let me know when you can. No hurries, as more such government programs are likely to come our way on a variety of products as yet more enviro-friendly glop on behalf of mother earth and the poor consumer.

By: Wakefield Tolbert

Wakefield Tolbert — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:00:49 +0000

Heavens, I love this site. Keeeewl.

Though to be sure on the whole CFC thing, government defends the programs (and for some reason I ran into an ACORN activist who to this moment would cry foul at the graph by claiming that it misrepresents the goals of CFC to merely move old inventory, and get consumers into more fuel efficient cars–NOT as a handout to Detroit as some claim, etc).

By: KingShamus

KingShamus — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:39:28 +0000

One more indication that when it comes to big government economic programs, the right hand doesn’t know who the left foot is tripping.