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Replying to: priggly (Jun 22, 2009 3:26 pm)
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Replying to: kneisl1 (Jun 22, 2009 10:43 am) |
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| Smart 33 mpg in town. My Yaris is getting between 35 and 36 mpg in town albeit i have driven only about 800 miles so far. The official numbers for the Yaris is 29 mpg. Maybe i would also do better than 33 if I drove the Smart. Whats premium now 40 cents more/gallon? Regular is $2.50 in NJ. | |
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Replying to: gregg_vw (Jun 22, 2009 4:36 pm) |
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| Looks like some folks can not take it when expressions of others differ from theirs. This whole forum is quite informative if one just takes it for its purpose and not be so serious in making or intrepreting statements. | |
| Let's back off the personal stuff please | |
| I di a little figuring on the added cost of running premium in a car as opposed to regular. Its not as bad as I thought. In two cars getting the same mileage but one running on premium and one running on regular, the car requiring premium will cost about 7.5 per cent more for fuel. In the case of a car getting 33 mpg thats the equivalent of 2.3 miles per gallon. Or looking at in another way the car running on regular will cost $75 per thousand miles of driving, whereas the premium based car will cost $81. Thats $600 over 100k miles. (at $2.5 0per gallon for regular, $2.70 for premium) | |
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"Americans are buying more small cars to cut fuel costs, and that might kill them. As a group, occupants of small cars are more likely to die in crashes than those in bigger, heavier vehicles are, according to data from the government, the insurance industry and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)." http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2007-08-19-small-cars_N.htm
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But drivers of oversized cars are subsidising countries who sponsor terrorism and wasting our irreplacable natural resources. What price do you put on that? Besides wed be a lot safer if everyone drove a small car.
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Replying to: kneisl1 (Jun 25, 2009 3:44 am) |
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