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Compared to a regular job, being self-employed has its advantages. You typically have more than one source of (modest) income and are unlikely to get fired by more than one boss at a time. If you work in your home, the commute is short and the dress code easy. And, because you’re essentially always on the job, you get to combine work with play. So I nearly always work while on vacation… partly by choice, largely out of a need to get things done.

Which brings us to Honolulu, where I was recently asked to talk to a group of Hawai’i-based auto enthusiasts - creatively called the “Auto Lunch Bunch” - that meets once a month for lunch at the Waikiki yacht club (sounds fancier than it is). What did they want me to talk about? EVs and Hybrids? Yeah, I could do that.

Group organizer (and old friend) Bill Maloney, who is producer and host of the “Ohana Road” automotive Television show on Honolulu’s KITV (ABC) and writes an auto/humor column called (what else?) “A Bunch of Maloney,” for the Honolulu Advertiser, sweetened the offer by talking the local Toyota dealer into loaning me a new Prius for our six-day stay. Who could say no? (more after the jump)

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