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Show Lakeside Review, June 3, 1981, Page 7A Which Model Costs Less to Operate? When you shop for a major appliance, you probably compare prices, but do you find out which model will cost less to operate? By comparison shopping for an energy efficient appliance, your various amounts of the number of hours If you pay six usage. cents per kilowat hour and you use a room air conditioner with an EER of 9.9 for one thousand hours (or 42 complete days) each summer, your its used, then dividing by one thousand. (Check an appliance's nameplate for the number of watts.) For example, if your coffeemaker is 600 watts, and it is used one hour should estimated yearly each day, the cofenergy operating cost is about feemaker is using of a kilowat hour savings, says the Utah $34. The estimated yearly electric reflect bills the six-tent- operating cost for the daily. Multiplying that by same amount of use is 30, the appliance is using about $45, if your elec- 18 kilowat hours pei month. tricity rate is eight cents At 10 cents per kilowat hour, your coffeemaker is per kilowat hour. costing you $1.80 monthly in electricity. The kilowat hour is a You can also find out measurement unit that shows how much energy the average amount of an appliance uses. You electricity youre using can determine how many for lighting each month. kilowat hours each ap- Add the number of watts an called Energy pliance in your home uses of the bulbs in each room, Efficiency Rating by multiplying the multiply by the number of (EER). This tells you number of watts of power hours of use and divide bv how efficiently the ap- the appliance requires by one thousand. pliance uses electricity. The government requires that Energy Guide labels on be displayed refrigerators, freezers, Association of CPAs. Prior to your shopping trip, look at your last electric bill to find out the cost of each kilowat hour. This will help you determine the operating cost of each appliance you consider. In the store, CPAs suggest that you check the Energy Guide label which gives a number WORKING ON CARS is Mike Rushs passion. Ever since he was young, growing up in the Bronx, New York, he has tinkered on cars, and recently he opened his own garage at 1825 W. 5200 S. in Roy and business has been doing quite well. Mike's garage is open Monday through Friday and by , pointment on Saturday. ap- clothes dryers, water heaters, ranges, ovens, and room air con- Now It's a Business His Life By Lucinda M. Schuft and said there precticed with a mechanic in the Bronx. The mechanic he studied with was a than five cars in for servicing. German immigrant who had been a Rush grew up in the Bronx, New blacksmith and turned mechanic with York, and has been tinkering with cars the birth of the automobile. Rush feels since he was a youngster. He said he some of his most valuable knowledge started getting really involved with car was gained during that period of his repair in High School and then ap-- life. The German taught him to make parts that couldnt be obtained, and his Rush offers this service customers. He said for the most part it is cheaper to buy the parts, but the parts for some cars are' not always readily available. Rush worked as a mechanic while attending night school at the City A Salt Lake Architect firm and Weber electronic billboard that announces College of New York. He earned a events for the DEC and the college, said degree in accounting and is a certified State College have received the 1981 public accountant. Architectural Masonry Award for the Hurst. After spending eight years working construction of the Dee Events Center The building, he explained, was built in memorium to Edith Dee Mack as a CPA Rush said he realized that he Marquee and Entrance Gate. liked getting his hands dirty and The award was presented Friday Green by the trustees of that founto working on cars. returned Annual the 15) dation. Masonry during (May he will never make the He admits of in Awards Ceremony Cost for construction was aprecognition as an outstanding design utilizing brick, said proximately $220,000, which came from money as a mechanic that he jdid accountant, but he isnt worried about Dean Hurst, WSC Vice President for private donations. The Entrance Gate is constructed it. He loves what he is doing. College Relations. Rush spends 10 to 12 hours each day to was of idea the The with the same style of brick used marquee working at his business and when he is create a pleasing awareness of the throughout campus buildings. nearness of the Dee Events Center to A special metal, corten stet, was used at home he continues on his own cars. I do love cars, he said. Harrison Blvd. travelers and to have a to conform the building with the Events And when he isnt working on the full functional use, said Hurst. Center, which has a facia using the size autos he's building model cars or The two story structure houses an same material. reading car magazines. His favorite cars are high performance British cars. He also likes e cars and High School students who will be, academic year are now available at other European-madof cars. American Studies at II Warr to next fall should begin Aerospace seniors apply Departments He will work on all types of cars but now for Air Force Reserve Officers "any college or university bosting Air College Force ROTC and at U.S. Air Force prefers the small car. He doesnt like Training Corps Four-Yea- r D. recruitine stations, or students can to Col. working on large American made cars Hugh according Scholarships to the write Office of Public and said he thinks there is no need for ROTC Air Force Affairs, McCracken, Jr., Air AL 36112.-A- n these large automobiles on the roads. Maxwell Force ROTC, AFB, Registrar. Air Force ROTC Four-Yea- r Students chances for selection their Scholarship provides for payment of increase submitting by scholarship applications during the full tuition, books and most fees, plus a summer and early fall, says Colonel $100 monthly stipend during each academic year. The scholarships can McCracken. be used at about 600 colleges and freshman the for Applications universities that offer Air Force ROTC. scholarships beginning in the 1982-8- 3 business on May Staff Writer ROY Open just over a half a month with business booming, Mikes Garage at 1825 W, 5200 S., Roy, has had remarkable success in just the short period its been open. Mike Rush opened his doors for 11 hasnt been a day that he has had fewer Masonary Award Given For Events Center Gate , ; t i i Apply for Scholarships Now pre-Wor- ld 4 ditioners. The EER usually ranges from seven to 12, and the higher Health News from Whe Chiropractic the number, the more efHis own car collection includes two ficient the unit. At a rate British built Sunbeams one of which is a of 12 cents per kilowat sunbeam LeMans. He said only 168 hour, a AIR were ever made and so far only 14 are conditioner with an EER known to still be in existence world of 7.0 could cost $59 in 5,000-BTT- wide. Unfortunately when he purchased his Sunbeam, the whole car was there, but in pieces in the back of a truck when it was delivered. That didnt really bother Rush who said he knows the car part by part will enough to just stick it back together. His wife said when they go to auto parts auctions he can look at a greasy part and determine just where it goes on the car. He said most people who fix cars today are not mechanics. They tend to just change parts rather than really fix problems. He said there isnt a part on a car that cant be tested to see if it is working. Rush approaches repair by testing to determine just what is wrong and then fixing it. He said this approach will often cost a customer less than going to a regular garage. said he charges diagnostic time and his rates are on the higher end of the scale for labor, but because of less He parts expense and time the customers pay less and get a better running car. He said one place he used to work got mad because he didnt sell enough parts on the cars he repaired. Rush is a certified general mechanic and speaks highly of this program. In order to gain the designation he has completed 16 hours of testing. Nationwide, he said, only 30,000 mechanics have achieved this electricity each year, while a similar unit with an EER of 8.8 could cost annually to run. If the second unit had a higher purchase price than the first, it could still be the better buy in terms of enwergy efficiency, say $47 CPAs. The Energy Guide label also gives EERs for the least and most efficient models of the brand of appliance youre sidering. con- For example, at a refrigerator with an EER of nine, and you look the label indicates that the least efficient model has a rating of eight, ' while the most efficient model is rated 10. You can then judge the efficiency of the model youre looking at. 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