# Texas offers $3000.00 credit for car purchase

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 25, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-offers-3000-00-credit-for-car-purchase/431212 "2007-12-25T17:46:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-offers-3000-00-credit-for-car-purchase/431212/1 "2007-12-25T17:46:49Z")

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I read somewhere on-line recently about an offer from the State of  
Texas of a $3000.00 credit for new car purchases. It may have been the Houston Chronicle, or one of the local TV station websites. Now, I can’t find the article again.

The article said one could get up to $3500.00 for a hybrid purchase and listed the income requirements,and that it was intended to get olders cars or those who can’t pass emisssions tests off the road.

I didn’t qualify, so didn’t make note of the information. Of course, now I wish I had as some friends want to know about the program. I recall that 80 car dealers (dealerships?) were participating.

Does anyone know of the plan?

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**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-offers-3000-00-credit-for-car-purchase/431212/2 "2007-12-25T18:25:39Z")

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I got a letter in the mail from TxDOT (?) about this. I didn’t qualify, either, so I threw out the letter. However, IIRC, the car has to be \>10 y.o. and your household income has to be below a fairly small amount.

Ah, here’s a [story on the program](http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5328464.html).  
excerpt;

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> To qualify for the program, vehicles must have passed a state inspection within the last 15 months and have been registered in a participating county for at least a year. The owner’s annual income cannot exceed $61,950 for a family of four.
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> For cars that qualify, a $3,000 voucher will be issued that can be used as a down payment on a new vehicle that cannot cost more than $25,000. The voucher can also be applied to used vehicles that are no more than two model years old.
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> The 16 counties are Brazoria, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Johnson, Kaufman, Montgomery, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Travis and Williamson.

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**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-offers-3000-00-credit-for-car-purchase/431212/3 "2007-12-25T20:39:19Z")

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That’s the one! Thanks!

It’s here: [driveacleanmachine.org](http://driveacleanmachine.org)