{"id":4669,"date":"2011-11-14T03:13:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T11:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2012-01-26T00:50:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T08:50:39","slug":"switching-to-zip-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/switching-to-zip-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching to Zip Car"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The day D and I brought home my new '98 Sebring!<\/p><\/div>\n

With Charlotte in Seattle, I’m tightening up my expenditures and dumping my car & garage. It’s startling how expensive my car is… $7320 per year!<\/strong> Of course, I need a car to get around, I can’t just say something like, “food is too expensive, I’m not going to eat any more.” So I’m getting a Zip Car membership.<\/p>\n

car costs per month<\/p>\n

$200 garage – it also doubles as storage, now squished into the apartment
\n$90 insurance – $1,000\/year
\n$120 gas – 10,000 miles\/year, $4\/gallon, 27MPG
\n$120 depreciation – $20,000 new in Sept 1998, worth $1,000 now, that’s 13 years
\n$50 maintenance – car repairs, oil
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\n$610\/month… $7320 per year!<\/p>\n

Zip Car by comparison
\nif I don’t change my driving habits:
\n10,000 miles\/year if driven at an average speed of 20MPH is 500 hours. * $9\/hour = $4,500\/year<\/del><\/p>\n

If I drive less:
\n6,000 miles\/year = $2,700\/year<\/del><\/p>\n

Update 1-26-12<\/strong>: the above isn’t correct because it doesn’t account for the hours and days that a car sits. With Zipcar I am paying whether the car is moving or not. So I’m not sure what Zipcar really costs.<\/p>\n

I can rent a truck or a Mini Cooper when need be, it’s always clean, it’s always new, never any fuss, and it’s parked directly across the street. Ask me again in 6 months if I still love it.<\/p>\n

How much does your<\/strong> car cost?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Charlotte in Seattle, I’m tightening up my expenditures and dumping my car & garage. It’s startling how expensive my car is… $7320 per year! Of course, I need a car to get around, I can’t just say something like, “food is too expensive, I’m not going to eat any more.” So I’m getting a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}