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Old 08-10-2011, 03:40 PM   #18 (permalink)
Clev
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Originally Posted by JRFlyer View Post
The same can be said for car owners as well. I always laugh at the idiots that trade in their perfectly good 3-5 year old car for a brand new cracker box that also comes with a $15-20k loan, all in the name of "saving money on gas". Obviously these people flunked 1st grade math, as they will *never* recover the cost of the car in gas savings.
Trucks probably average 100,000 miles a year. Going from 6 mpg to 8 mpg at today's fuel prices saves about $22,000 a year in fuel. You'd have to have a pretty darn new truck for that upgrade to not make sense, and anybody who buys a new 6 mpg truck between now and when the regs go into effect in 2014 deserves to get smacked down by the market.
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