[Rhodes22-list] Hybrid Cars

[L. Sailor]

Bill, 

It would be fun to catch you on the local AM news
shows ..so do let us know where you'll be when you get
the details ironed out....kind of figured you'd be too
scheduled to be able to take time off..

elle


--- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:

> Elle,
> 
> I wrote a book, 15 years ago, called "How to Sell
> Your Home in 5-Days".  
> Every time there is a housing downturn they ask me
> to update it--it's an 
> easy book to promote--this is the third edition. 
> The method really 
> works, the book has remained in bookstores for 15
> years, people still 
> use the method every weekend to sell their homes at
> the highest possible 
> prices.
> 
> I don't know the itinerary yet.  I've been in the 50
> largest cities in 
> the US, except for Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. 
> They will send me out 
> to all the big ones again over the next 5 years. 
> I'm hoping the 
> publicity person who books the tours has some sense
> of geography, which 
> has not always been the case.  I used to think I
> could visit friends 
> during the tour, but this didn't work out.  The
> tours are grueling, 
> there is an enormous amount of pressure, and you
> talk so much you get 
> hoarse.
> 
> Bill Effros
> 
> L. Sailor wrote:
> > Bill,
> >
> > How about an itinerary for your tour?  What book
> will
> > you be promoting?
> >
> > elle
> >
> > --- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Thanks, Hank,
> >>
> >> I did the same math, and came to the same
> >> conclusion.  But I have a 
> >> special need, and that is why I'm buying the car.
>  I
> >> will be doing a 
> >> book tour next Spring, the first of many.  I
> drive
> >> from city to city 
> >> because it's so much less a hassle than flying. 
> My
> >> interest in the 
> >> Toyota Camry is its range, which is better than
> 600
> >> miles on a tankful.
> >>
> >> When you do the morning news you often have to be
> at
> >> the TV station 
> >> before 6:00 am.  If you have driven a couple of
> >> hundred miles to get to 
> >> the next city late at night, you don't want to
> have
> >> to drive around to 
> >> find an open gas station, either late at night or
> >> early the next 
> >> morning.  I like to sleep as close to the first
> TV
> >> station as possible, 
> >> and often they are located in remote places with
> no
> >> nearby gas 
> >> stations.  The huge range allows me to drive from
> >> one city to the next, 
> >> hitting all the local TV stations the next
> morning
> >> before I have to fill 
> >> the tank and get to the next town.
> >>
> >> This is also the reason for not buying a diesel. 
> In
> >> many places diesel 
> >> is just too hard to come by.
> >>
> >> The last time I did this I bought a Camry that
> had a
> >> 500 plus mile 
> >> range.  I didn't often get to the bottom of the
> >> tank, but a few times I 
> >> did.  I liked the car--it was comfortable and
> quiet
> >> for repeated long 
> >> trips.  The new one is supposed to have the same
> >> attributes, and the 600 
> >> mile range is the big draw for me.
> >>
> >> Bill Effros
> >>
> >> Hank wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Bill,
> >>>
> >>> On the subject of hybrid cars, we recently
> bought
> >>>       
> >> a new car and we were
> >>     
> >>> looking at the Honda Civic, both standard and
> >>>       
> >> hybrid.  For us, the 
> >>     
> >>> math just
> >>> didn't work out and we ended up buying the
> >>>       
> >> standard version. I'll show 
> >>     
> >>> you
> >>> what I mean.  FYI, both of the cause were
> >>>       
> >> comparable equipped with the 
> >>     
> >>> only
> >>> real difference being the drivetrain.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Honda Civic
> >>>
> >>> MPG
> >>>
> >>> Gas Cost/Gal
> >>>
> >>> Annual Miles
> >>>
> >>> Gas/year (Mileage/MPG)
> >>>
> >>> Gas Cost/year
> >>>
> >>> Veh Cost
> >>>
> >>> # of years to break even
> >>>
> >>> Regular
> >>>
> >>> 30
> >>>
> >>> 2.5
> >>>
> >>> 15000
> >>>
> >>> 500
> >>>
> >>> 1250
> >>>
> >>> 18000
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hybrid
> >>>
> >>> 50
> >>>
> >>> 2.5
> >>>
> >>> 15000
> >>>
> >>> 300
> >>>
> >>> 750
> >>>
> >>> 22000
> >>>
> >>> 8
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> At a savings of $500 a year in gas, it would
> take
> >>>       
> >> 8 years for the 
> >>     
> >>> hybrid to
> >>> break even with the normal engine version
> because
> >>>       
> >> of the increased 
> >>     
> >>> purchase
> >>> price. To me, that is just not economically
> >>>       
> >> feasible.
> >>     
> >>> Hank
> >>>
> >>> On 10/9/06, Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> >>>       
> 
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