Comments on: Why You Need to Get Into Politics http://www.earlytorise.com/2008/05/30/why-you-need-to-get-into-politics.html The Web's Most Popular Newsletter Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:45:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Jeffrey Kontur http://www.earlytorise.com/2008/05/30/why-you-need-to-get-into-politics.html/comment-page-1#comment-433 Jeffrey Kontur Fri, 30 May 2008 15:33:47 +0000 http://www.earlytorise.com/2008/05/30/why-you-need-to-get-into-politics.html#comment-433 I agree with the general premise of Rick Pendergraft's article on gas prices as they pertain to the economy, however there is one important flaw in his calculations. He assumes that all 135 million cars in the US are being actively driven. I don't know how many but I do know that some percentage of those cars are merely "extras". I personally know of at least three families with these extra cars which are not driven on a regular basis. In one case, al though the car is still registered and maintained, I doubt it's been driven in several years. That doesn't negate the validity of the argument, but I'd think rounding the number of cars down to something like 100 million would yield a more accurate, if slightly conservative, calculation. I agree with the general premise of Rick Pendergraft’s article on gas prices as they pertain to the economy, however there is one important flaw in his calculations. He assumes that all 135 million cars in the US are being actively driven. I don’t know how many but I do know that some percentage of those cars are merely “extras”. I personally know of at least three families with these extra cars which are not driven on a regular basis. In one case, al though the car is still registered and maintained, I doubt it’s been driven in several years.

That doesn’t negate the validity of the argument, but I’d think rounding the number of cars down to something like 100 million would yield a more accurate, if slightly conservative, calculation.

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