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Originally Posted by Kodak
If you start with 14mpg and jump to a mere 16mpg, you save .89 gallons of fuel in 100 miles or 8.9 in 1000 miles. Using today's average price of $3.27/gal, that means $29.10 in 1000 miles, or $87.30 at oil change intervals of 3000 miles.
But as the video points out, people don't associate a 2mpg difference with a very drastic improvement in fuel consumption.
My guess is that we mentally categorize the two as 'gas guzzlers' or 'abysmal mpg' without doing any math.
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Maybe we mentally categorize the two as gas guzzlers because they ARE gas guzzlers. Going from 14 mpg to 16 mpg just restrains the guzzling a bit. The point is to go from 14 to 40 mpg, or 16 to 60.
And oil change intervals of 3000 miles? Even my '88 Toyota pickup specifies 10K miles.