Brett2000 wrote:
John,
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where we all found out how hybrids are actually more expensive to own than regular gasoline fueled cars
Let me guess, that was when gasoline was $2.00/gallon, or less and hybrid cars were at a much higher premium then they are today. I'd be curious to see that site, as from what I can tell, hybrids do just fine, but now, heck, I'd rather have the Nissan Leaf, all electric and forget about gasoline all together!
BTW - did you get your PDC ID setup yet for Content Slideshow, I'm still waiting for it?
Brett,
Actually, the price of fuel, and even mpg, is only one aspect when calculating cost of vehicle ownership, but the calculator allows you to enter any gas price you want. So I suppose you can see for yourself about old and new gas prices.
When they did the site redesign, they added an extra fuel price field that seems irrelevant to me. Not sure why David did that, but just use the fuel price field on the left I suppose.
They also didn't separate the two lists (hybrid : regular) after the site redesign. So all types of cars are in both lists! Weird
But you can still select a hybrid vehicle in the list on the left and the comparable gasoline vehicle in the list on the right.
Ever since the redesign, Kiplinger.com loads slow and clunky now. Not sure what they were thinking. I suspect to many database calls and javascript ads. Very disappointing.
Green Car Calculator:
http://kiplinger.com/tools/hybrid_calculator/index.htmlOther calculators I created for Kiplinger.com:
Retirement Savings Calculator:
http://kiplinger.com/tools/retirement-s ... lator.htmlRecoup Your Savings Calculator:
Created for those that wanted to know how they need to change their budgets to make up for all the economic melt down and loss in the United States.
http://kiplinger.com/tools/recoup_your_ ... alculator/Financial Calendar:
Features the ability to add dates and alerts to your own Google calendar and a full backend content management system for the admins to add more topics, dates, categories, etc. Of course they messed this up during the redesign too. The popup dates don't disappear when you click on them anymore. So the next page has the popup date sitting there in front of everything. Geeze! I need to give them a call I guess. Can't put that on my resume as it is:
http://www.kiplinger.com/calendar/As far as electric cars go - all you are really doing is transfering the cost of fuel from your gasoline bill to your household electric bill. So electrics aren't all that either. Sooner or later they will find that hydrogen is the way to go.
Haven't set up the PDC affiliate stuff yet Brett. I'm waiting on finding an affiliate program I can use instead of ClickBank and then I will update for both types of affiliate programs at the same time.
John
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As you said, tons of ads, after I submit the form I get a page with no calculations on it and about 30 ads! Too bad, as Kiplinger is a good magazine, I used to be a subscriber.