{"id":8976,"date":"2017-02-04T23:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T07:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2017-02-04T23:50:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T07:50:38","slug":"amount-will-spend-versus-dollars-will-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/amount-will-spend-versus-dollars-will-save\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amount You Will Spend Versus The Dollars You Will Save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this piece of news recently how around here there is a rebate incentive of sorts to get people to buy green friendly vehicles that are say electric.  As result one could get up to $11,000 if they trade in their old car to purchase a green friendly one.  $11,000 sounds like a ton of money to the point where it seems silly not to take advantage of it huh?<\/p>\n<p>I was then looking at some of the prices though where for the most part it seems like you would have to spend that much as well if not more.  It\u2019s almost to the point of literally buying a new car.  Would that dollar amount you save still be tempting?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8978\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/amount-will-spend-versus-dollars-will-save\/car\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1177,585\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;windows&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1486251926&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"car\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car-300x149.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car-1024x509.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car-1024x509.jpg\" alt=\"electric car prices 2017\" width=\"875\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car-1024x509.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car-155x77.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car-480x240.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car-950x472.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/car.jpg 1177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s often the immediate thing I look at when buying anything with huge discounts.  How much do I end up spending still?  Especially in cases where I have items that are still functional for the most where this would be an upgrade.  Otherwise financially it\u2019s too easy to just buy things simply because you have the coupon where you technically did save money on the retail purchase but not overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this piece of news recently how around here there is a rebate incentive of sorts to get people to buy green friendly vehicles that are say electric. As result one could get up to $11,000 if they trade in their old car to purchase a green friendly one. $11,000 sounds like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[6614,6615,21,435,1578],"class_list":["post-8976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-dollars","tag-electric-cars","tag-money","tag-savings","tag-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/electric-car.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-2kM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8979,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions\/8979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}