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TheMercenary · 06-23-2007, 08:34 AM

HLJ, Got ya... But you do get my point. There are quite a number of emotionally motivated simpletons out there who think that by simply owning a car the gets better gas milage in someway saves them a ton of money. It might, it might not. There are quite a few factors that effect such a decision. Same for driving 10 miles to save $0.05 a gallon on gas. I have a boat with a 135 gal tank. I filled it with 100 gallons of gas the other day. The place near us sells gas for $2.90, the place in town, 10 miles away, for $2.85. I would have saved $5.00 in gas by driving to town. Towing the boat with my truck, getting about 12 mpg under towning conditions, would have cost me 2.00, I would have saved $3 by making the drive, not really worth it. People need to appy the same thought process to practical applications in buying a car. The bottom line is you are right, big differences are not going to happen till gas were to suddenly jump up to $5 or $6 a gallon.

06-23-2007, 08:34 AM	#216
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	HLJ, Got ya... But you do get my point. There are quite a number of emotionally motivated simpletons out there who think that by simply owning a car the gets better gas milage in someway saves them a ton of money. It might, it might not. There are quite a few factors that effect such a decision. Same for driving 10 miles to save $0.05 a gallon on gas. I have a boat with a 135 gal tank. I filled it with 100 gallons of gas the other day. The place near us sells gas for $2.90, the place in town, 10 miles away, for $2.85. I would have saved $5.00 in gas by driving to town. Towing the boat with my truck, getting about 12 mpg under towning conditions, would have cost me 2.00, I would have saved $3 by making the drive, not really worth it. People need to appy the same thought process to practical applications in buying a car. The bottom line is you are right, big differences are not going to happen till gas were to suddenly jump up to $5 or $6 a gallon. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!