My wife and I will be married thirty years this year.  If our second car had been a ExerTrike for those thirty years and the difference invested, it’s hard to imagine the outcome.  it’s a simple equation, really.  Using the “Statistical Abstract of the United States” published by the government every year, you simply take the average cost per mile times the average miles driven, and discover a yearly average cost of $10,000 per car per year.  Now taking the average investment percentage and running it out at $600 per month for thirty years, we allow $2,800 per year for the ExerTrike, our best estimate.  My CPA tells me the stock market, over time, generally averages 10% to 12%.  At just 10% over our thirty year marriage, we would have $1,367,595.19!!!  Laugh or cry, that’s a fact!

     How would this play out for the nation?  If every second car were a ExerTrike, the nation according to 2005 figures would consume 65 billion fewer gallons of gas and diesel per year.  This is more than half of the oil that we presently import from the Middle East.

      Our trade deficits would go down as well.  We are presently spending approximately 250 Billion dollars on cars made or partially made in foreign countries.  Even if all ExerTrikes were made overseas and imported, the net gain in the trade deficit would be approximately 200 Billion dollars!

      So what will it cost you in time to gain all these financial benefits for both you and your country?  Nothing!  ExerTrike is designed to roll right along with city traffic.  In fact, it is estimated that the few seconds Exertrike may be slower than other traffic will be less than the minutes spent once a week at the fuel stop, in most cases.

      At this time, I must cheat a point from our third section on health to make a financial point.  The average American spends $107.00 per year on health clubs and $1168.00 above insurance on hospital visits. We can find no statistic that will tell us how many hours the average American spends in the gym or in the hospital per year, but with these financial figures you can only imagine!  Wouldn’t you like to get all that time and money back as well?  You can get two cardiovascular workouts per day free and not take another minute out of your day.

      This adds another $1275.00 annually to your pocketbook and who knows how many hours annually to your life, so families can spend more time together again, have more money to spend on each other, and be healthier all the while.

      You also would have more room in your garage, pay fewer taxes because our government would not need to subsidize as much oil production, and so on.  Whole books are written about “and so on,” alone, way too much to explain here.