Cash for clunkers... the bottom line.

I wouldent be so presumtious as to say I understood the details of the report

How about reading it?

I just know that this is what Edmund does, keep track of this sort of thing.

Really?

They have been doing it for decades.

Wow, so leaving aside that the branch that did this study is only 3 years old can you find any comparable economic cycle affecting the auto industry and or a comparable funding program to establish a firm basis(or any basis) from which to extrapolate their projections from?
Once you have found the non existant basis for their flawed methodology and dealt with that then you can go on and explain their contradictory findings too.