Those who missed out on cash for clunkers will have their chance to cash in on a new government program, assuming that they have old, inefficient appliances that they want to trade out for new, energy-efficient appliances. The Department of Energy will put $300 million into their “cash for refrigerators” rebate program, which will take effect in the next several months.
Although the premise is similar to the Cash for Clunkers program, this new federal rebate program will not require customers to trade in their old appliances to secure a rebate on the new appliances. Customers will receive rebates for their …read more

Appliance giant Whirlpool Corp. has decided to shut down operations of its Evansville, Indiana manufacturing plant by the middle of 2010 as part of a larger effort by the company to restructure its manufacturing. Unfortunately for Evansville, a total of around 1,100 jobs will be shed as part of the closing of the plant.
 
The factory’s production, which consists primarily of Whirlpool’s most popular freezer refrigerators, will be transferred to a factory in Mexico, while its production of icemakers at the same factory will be moved to an undisclosed location. According to Whirlpool, the company has been looking at ways to …read more