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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
Getting 22 mpg on a long trip with everyone is fine. Getting 22 mpg all year long because you take a road trip once or twice a year is ridiculous. Drive what you actually need the other 51 weeks and rent a van for your trip.
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Not quite. Check out prices of renting a van for a week. My quick search shows that Enterprise charges $650 if you keep the van local to surrounding states. If you leave those states, there is a $0.29 fee per mile. So, if one had a 50 mpg car and rented a van twice a year for one week, the fuel savings cost equals out to just driving a 22 mpg car around year round.
Now, I can see this for a 12 mpg truck when the truck bed never gets used for things that can only fit in a truck's bed.