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Analysts are still debating what the legacy of the Cash for Clunkers program will be."If we're looking for the environmental story here, we're going to be disappointed," Jeremy Anwyl, chief executive at the analyst firm Edmunds.com, told the AP. "It might have started out from the perspective of improving the environment, but it got detoured as a way to stimulate the economy."
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