The report this morning said the government gets $5b for environmental clean up and customers get $10b in fixes or buy backs. We'll see. There was a GM settle

The report this morning said the government gets $5b for environmental clean up and customers get $10b in fixes or buy backs. We'll see. There was a GM settlement like this (the pickup gas tank problem) and customers with existing pickups got a coupon good for $1000 off the price of a new pickup. So GM gets to sell you a new pickup and probably keeps any rebates or low financing. Also the recent Ticket Master settlement for $420M. There's a daily allotment of coupons worth $5 off the ticket price on select concerts (read: not the popular ones) that are buried in a series of hard to follow links. They still have the same service charges like before, they're just more transparent about it.