Re: (ET) Electrak Show??

[David C Robie <mycroftxx1 juno com>]

Hi Joel

YAH that was Tony's place.  But we meet in CT now.  Tony had a fire
recently, a truck ran over the banking in back and destroyed most of the
shop and part of the house.  Even destroyed 'Red Beastie'  his most
excellent 40 battery 120VDC pickup.  He'll be recovering from that but is
temporarily inactive with the EV's even though still President of our
group. (I wonder if his Etrak survived?)

Prius?  you're halfway there now to '0 petroleum' - good choice.  We have
a lot of Priii as members and to get to far away CT meetings we 'Prius
pool'.  Like car pools but a lot more efficient fuelwise.  

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:47:13 -0400 "Joel Parks" <et jpjt net> writes:
> I with you on this one Dave.  Plus I promised myself I would only use 
> the 
> trailer hitch I put on the Prius for my Sunfish and other light 
> stuff; the 
> E15 doesn't qualify as light.  Nor can my cargo bicycle (see 
> http://xtracycle.com) handle it.
> 
> Anyway I live in Bedford right off Rt 3 and only a couple miles from 
> 128.
> 
> And I'm also a member of NEEAA, I made one of the monthly meetings 6 
> or 8 
> years ago at somebody's place in Worc. off I-190.  Was that Tony's 
> place? 
> Reading recent posts from you full-size EVers talking is putting the 
> 
> Convert-It bug back in my head.  I even took a look at EBay for 
> Rabbits last 
> night, just to see a snapshot of current availability.  I guess I 
> need 
> another garage before I contemplate a project like that.  Not to 
> mention a 
> spare 10 or $15K.  I prolly shoulda bought Ken's rabbit last year 
> before I 
> bought the Prius.
> 
> Joel
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David C Robie" <mycroftxx1 juno com>
> To: <jerry38 alltel net>
> Cc: <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>; <ThompsonG DFO-MPO GC CA>
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: (ET) Electrak Show??
> 
> 
> 
> I, for one,  would not attend.  The issue of trailering an etrak to 
> an
> individual show for them in the light of current gasoline prices 
> scares
> me.  Even the thought of 'no trailer,  no car, airfare and hotel' is
> scary.
>       We save gasoline, therefore cut our personal output of global
> warming gases down a good bit with these tractors (I have figured my 
> own
> fuel saving at approx $45 per grassgrowingseason - month  
> notwithstanding
> snowplowing issues which means more saving of  money, depleting
> petrofuel, and harmful petroemission output.
> <snip> 
> 
>