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Jul 26, 2007 -- Shared-car services are really taking off

Clark made a prediction in January that ended up wrong. He said gas prices would be a lot lower by this summer. He says he really blew it on that one. However, he made another prediction several years ago that may just be turning out to be true. He predicted there would be increasing demand in the US for shared cars services. Two companies who are doing this are Zipcar and Flexcar. These are services where you can rent a car by the hour just to do your errands, and just return it to where it was parked when you're done. Gas and insurance are usually included. It's kind of like "public transit, private driving," and it's much cheaper than adding another car to the family fleet! It's expanding like wild fire to many American cities, and even to some suburban markets. Since cars are such a huge part of our daily budget, it can save you a lot of money. It's like owning 1 and 1/4 cars, instead of 2 cars, or a time share for a car. But everyone knows that's not a term Clark likes to use -- so he prefers to call it "shared ownership!"

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