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Why Al Gore Should Want You To Buy A GPS
Electronics | Dec 13, 07
With a barrel of crude going for nearly a C-note and the earth warming to temperatures that would make a sauropod flip on an air conditioner, the least you can do for your planet is avoid driving around needlessly lost, spewing exhaust and wasting gas.
Fortunately, GPS prices have moderated significantly this year. Consider for example the Garmin Nuvi 650 Personal Travel Assistant, currently the most popular automotive GPS on this site. Back in April this unit would have cost you at least $500; today merchants are offering it for well under $400.
Time Period: 4/30/2007 through 12/10/2007
Each tick mark represents one week
Red = High Price, Blue = Average Price, Green = Low Price
An even more impressive drop has occurred in the price of the TomTom One XL, falling from a minimum of about $400 to under $250 today.
Time Period: 4/30/2007 through 12/10/2007
Each tick mark represents one week
Red = High Price, Blue = Average Price, Green = Low Price
These and many other GPS units have seen price declines in the days since Thanksgiving, but the magnitude of these reductions may be limited by margin-shrinking price cuts earlier in the year (we could be seeing a similar phenomenon in the flat-screen television market – see "Saving Green on Flat-Screens, After Black Friday"). Following twenty or thirty percent drops over the last eight months, you have to wonder how much lower prices can go this holiday season.
In any case, this is an excellent time to combat rising fuel costs with a newly inexpensive GPS. Then, the next time your environmentally conscious friends start talking about drowning polar bears and barren penguin rookeries while wearily eyeing that Panzer sitting in your driveway, you can point out that you get from point A to point B with all the twelve mile per gallon efficiency modern global positioning technology will allow.
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