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don't need a spread sheet. Take 10 years x 15,000 miles per year and you get 150,000 miles. So to drive 150,000 at 50 mpg you use 3000 gallons of gas. To drive 150,000 miles at 36 mpg you use 4167 gallons a difference of 1167 gallons. Even at $4/gallon (which it is 1/2 that right now you only save $4667 in 10 years but spent $5000 more in the first place. Don't get into resale because then I get to take that $5000 and invest it at least doubling the money in 10 years if not doubling it twice.
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Now take that a step further and compare the used market.
I paid 4,500 bucks for my Insight, it has 111,000 miles on it and a new battery. Say you can get a used (name your brand here) that comes within twenty miles a gallon of what my Insight gets with that mileage (good luck) and re-do the math for let's say a five year period of ownership.
I'd like to see that spreadsheet, cause that's my plan.