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Originally Posted by slowmover
Length of the school year is 180 days = 7,200-miles (4-gls/day is 10 mpg)
Fuel at $4/gl
At 11-mpg = 655-gls @ $2,618
With a 25% improvement:
At 15-mpg = 480-gls @ $1,920
Difference = 175-gls @ $700
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With a similar vintage and far less utopian 40mpg car under the same circumstances :
7200 miles is 180 gallons or $720 - a whopping 72% less !
That's a $1918 saving on gas - likely enough to buy the car.
Selling the truck(s) would be an extra.
What are the differences in insurance / taxes on a truck vs passenger car ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Diesel_Dave
How about we stop arguing about what's possible and give Steven some tips on how to do the best he can with what he's got--be that 13, 15, 18, 20, 30, or 1,000 mpg? He's starting at 11 mpg, let's see what he can do.
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Well, let's
not do that.
He's not going to get up to 30 mpg anytime soon - if ever - and it's not going to come completely free either.
All the while it's going to cost him and the family dearly, and for what ?
If money was really tight, I sure wouldn't waste it on a gas-guzzler.
But apparently, the pick-up truck is a deep-rooted virus in the US.