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Show COST OF OPERATION RESTS WITH OWNER Important Causes of High Cost of Motoring Told by Sharman. "The average motorist -who is constantly con-stantly complaining about the cost of operating his car possibly does not stop to consider that he is largely responsible responsi-ble for such a condition. He would do well to study the problem and see if there i3 not some means of effecting a saving of gasoline, oil, tires and lessening lessen-ing the general wear and tear on the car." The speaker was Sam Sharman, manager man-ager of the Sharman Auto company, local Oakland distributors, and Sharman, after years of experience in the automobile automo-bile business, has picked out some of the more important causes of the high cost of motoring which can be overcome by each individual. Continuing, Mr. Sharman said: The motorist who has his car at his door practically all of the time and who jumps in and uses it to run 100 yards down the street, or on quarter or half mile trips to execute little household errands or deliver messages, must realize that such driving can produce nothing but waste and high average cost of depreciation. de-preciation. With gasoline soaring as it has lately, it behooves every driver to cut out short trips. It is said that the biggest expense in running a train is in the starting and stopping. The same is true of an automobile, and the larger the car the more expensive it is to start and stop it. It is on the long journeys that the motor car scores, 'it scores over the bicycle and all other forms of locomotion in speed and in avoidance avoid-ance of fatigue over long distances. Again, economy can be effected by an amendment of driving methods. Tire economv is secured by moderate moder-ate driving, bv careful starting and stopping and by close scrutiny of the road. Drivers who are in the habit of speeding up between street intersections and slowing down abruptly at the street crossings are abusing their tires. A maximum of twenty-five miles per hour when such a speed is permissible is judicious judi-cious driving. Perfect control of every adverse circumstance without injury to the passengers, tires or mechanism can be maintained if this speed is never exceeded. It has very wisely been said that auy old car can go fast, but it takes a good one to run slowly. Sharman, accompanied hy Frank Collins, Col-lins, a member of his sales force, left last Wednesday for Chicago. After visiting vis-iting the auto show, Sharman and Collins Col-lins will spend ten days or two weeks inspecting the Cadillac and Oakland factories and arranging business matters mat-ters pertaining to next season's supply of these lines of cars. j |