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If you drive 12,000 miles per year and you pay $3.75 a gallon for RUG the difference between a car that gets 25MPG and 28MPG will be about $262.50 annually. If you keep the car 10 years the difference will be $2625.00 and 700 gallons of RUG. Now, how environmentally concerned are you? Your call.
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Replying to: obyone (May 11, 2008 3:26 pm) |
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Replying to: snakeweasel (May 11, 2008 2:40 pm)  And by "fortune," of course I mean debt. 
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Replying to: jkinzel (May 11, 2008 3:55 pm) Now, multiply your estimate by 100,000,000 vehicles and repeat the question.  tidester, host SUVs and Smart Shopper |
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Replying to: jkinzel (May 11, 2008 3:55 pm) If we get technical, the savings will be less than that as you have to present value that amount.  Still it doesn't make sense to buy a car that only gets 3MPG better as in the example provided. You save less than $2625 over 10 years, but you're going to have to pay a lot more than that to get your brand new vehicle. It doesn't make economic sense. Now, if you want to buy it to save 700 gallons of gas over 3 years, that's def. a good reason. |
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Replying to: mackabee (May 11, 2008 3:15 pm) If not better. Mack interesting. so the ambition is to be the fastest / top speed car around the Nürburgring. poor porsche....beaten twice in just as many years? |
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it is a 3.0 v6, stickshift. Should I invest in a new car that gets better mileage (say 30)? |
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Replying to: dino001 (May 11, 2008 3:37 pm) ‘dino’, turn your slide rule lights on when you start calculating. Even with a 6 inch slide rule you can interpolate that the dollar amount is $350 not $300. The rest of your math is correct, or close enough, so I assume you turned the lights on after the first calculation.  The fuel cost curve is a hyperbola approaching infinity at 0 mpg, so drops are large at low mpgs and small at high. There is no denying that you proved your point here. After being here for 10 years, I see manufacturers and merchants insulting intelligence of their customers and getting away with that over and over again. Marketing and advertizing is almost everything here. I have never lived anywhere else other than the GREAT USA nor do I ever have any intention to do so. However, I’ve heard similar comments from people who came to this GREAT country after living elsewhere so I have to believe this. The only explanation other than the water is, ‘we like to hear what we want to hear’ and because it works most of the time a lot of people don’t want to think. Then we have an economic disruption like the ‘home foreclosure crisis’ we’re in now because people forgot how to think or weren’t paying attention to 5th grade math. People do crazy stuff all around the world, but it's really astonishing how easy people buy into trends here. Almost unbelievable. It would be nice to have everything but even WE can’t do it right all the time. Rant finished Mine too. Edited: see above, Teach made me do it.  jmonroe
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Replying to: jmonroe (May 12, 2008 6:09 am) You might change your mind after the 2008 elections.  Richard
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Replying to: richard64 (May 12, 2008 6:38 am) ouch....that is hard.
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