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Do Yuppie Hybrid Buyers Really Need a Tax-Break Carrott Anymore?

Jason Walton/Willamette Week
By Corey Pein
Willamette Week | June 25, 2008
Like many states, Oregon has long offered generous tax credits -- on top of existing federal tax credits -- to buyers of new hybrids. But if demand is already high and climbing as fast as the price of gasoline, why keep giving away money?
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