2009年4月6日のブックマーク (2件)

  • Sui Genesis

    IT IS not just America's ailing carmakers that have been clobbered by the recession and the corresponding collapse in demand for new vehicles: every other carmaker is suffering, too. Even luxury marques such as Mercedes-Benz, Lexus and BMW, which are usually less affected by economic downturns, have reported plunging sales. All of which makes the achievements of South Korea's Hyundai particularly

    Sui Genesis
    cloudgrabber
    cloudgrabber 2009/04/06
     "Hyundai is also benefiting from a novel scheme, launched in January, in which it offers to buy back cars from customers who lose their jobs within a year of their purchase. (The company essentially offers a smaller discount and then uses the money to buy an insurance policy.)"
  • Whom the cap fits

    cloudgrabber
    cloudgrabber 2009/04/06
     "Many members of Congress, however, fear this sort of cap-and-trade scheme might dramatically increase the price of energy, and so compound the current recession. Others are turned off by the prospect of the government raking in huge dollops of cash from auctioning emissions permits"