Comments on: Green With Electric Envy

By: martymankins

martymankins — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:50:55 +0000

blondeblogger – I had a couple of spam comments on this post, but nothing that came from your account. All comments you post that have 1 or no links in them get approved automatically.

By: BlondeBlogger

BlondeBlogger — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:47:15 +0000

Oh good…I thought I’d pissed you off with my comment. Must’ve got eaten by a spam filter or something.

By: martymankins

martymankins — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:20:49 +0000

blondeblogger – Uh.. which comment? This is the first one that I’ve seen on this particular post from you.

By: BlondeBlogger

BlondeBlogger — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:03:33 +0000

Wait…did you delete my comment?

By: martymankins

martymankins — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:11:02 +0000

kris – Your biking is impressive. I mean, you ride a lot… that day you came over for the BBQ… you rode your bike. And of course, with the Jetta Diesel and it’s amazing mileage. The Vanagon loves the flat roads…. visions of Autozone and trying to find a decent decline to jump start… LOL.

The CNG is a good alternative fuel, as most city and state governments have a decent sized fleet of vehicles that run on it. And with Utah opening up CNG stations to all residents now, that makes it more of a viable option… well, if you don’t count the $8,000 to convert a 17 year old VW… LOL

By: breakaway9

breakaway9 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:47:23 +0000

Holy crap i can’t believe I didn’t get in on this post earlier….. YIKES…. Well what I did when gas hit $2.50 a gallon I sold my beloved V8 truck and bought a Diesel jetta that gets about 40-45 mpg in the city, and 50+ on the highway. I use that for all my long trips and to visit customers when i have to. I have a (believe it or not) paid for 1981 VW Vanagon that I drive back and forth to work in the winter when I cannot make the 5.4 mile (one way) bike ride. When I have to go downtown i do my best to ride my bike down to the train station and take Trax whenever possible. Even at 40-50mpg and an 11 mile commute gas prices suck…. I take the Vanagon hunting and anywhere I am going that is relatively flat, I take the Jetta if Iam going into the mountains to go fishing or whatever because the Vanagon in the mountains is painfully slow…. and the mileage in the Jetta is sooooo much better.

I have ben looking into doing a CNG conversion on the Vanagon, but found out just today that it would cost around $8,000 to convert and since there is not EPA certified kit I would not be eligible for any of the tax incentives which would have taken $6,500 off that $8,000. Since Utah just opened up all the state (except UDOT) CNG stations that would have been perfect since my office only 6 blocks from the School Districts pumping station, and at $1.00 per gasoline equivalent gallon that would have been sweet…..

Which leads into the next topic I personally think you should bring up in your Blog here…. T. Boone Pickens and his plan to exploit America (again)…. ;o) (I could help you with input if you are interested… LOL….)

Anyway great topic that really hit home this time, just wish I had seen it earlier….

By: martymankins

martymankins — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:14:09 +0000

brandon – Not having to commute to work saves on gas. Go you!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:58:20 +0000

I reduced my driving by losing my job. Now I don’t have to go nowhere. Yea me!

By: martymankins

martymankins — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:57:18 +0000

whall – That would be a great plug-in to have. Something that does the automatic calculation for you, complete with a color change, showing the green on days you take the bus and red for days when you drive.

By: whall

whall — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:20:22 +0000

yup, for me it’s the bus. I need some kind of wordpress plugin where I can put in when I ride the bus, and it shows a little calendar and the days I commute via the bus would be shown as green, and then add the however much I saved that day by taking the avg price of gas that day times the mpg/whatever. that would be a cool plugin.