Government Rebate Check

Got my government rebate check. I'm a little disappointed. I did not get the full refund I hoped for. Something to do with my taxes. Pastors are taxed a little differently than everyone else. I don't understand it all. My wife understands it better and that is why she does our taxes.

But $900! It is $900 I did not have yesterday. So we are giving some back to God. Much of the rest is going to Goodyear. Should have bought some new tires long ago, but I have been stubbornly holding out.

But buying the new tires means I am not selling my gas guzzling SUV (18 miles/gal) for some time. Sure I would like to get better gas mileage, but driving my fully paid off gas guzzler is better than saving a few bucks in gas. Plus what I would save in gas would be less than I would pay in car payments for that new car.

I have a friend who works who works for a dealership and often helps me out with my Jimmy. It is interesting how he told me that some of the Hybrid SUVs are actually getting worse gas mileage in real life than there normal counterparts. On top of that the Hybrids cost more to purchase and to maintain.

I'm over 120,000 right now. New set of tires should get me to 180,000. Probably be the last set I put on the vehicle. It is by far the longest I have ever driven one vehicle. Every car that came before had at least 90,000 miles on it already. My 2000 Jimmy only had 11,000.

Bye-bye rebate check.