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10042 messages, Last post on Jul 12, 2008 at 3:07 PM
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Replying to: dieselone (Apr 11, 2008 6:10 pm) |
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Replying to: nippononly (Apr 11, 2008 10:23 am) I'd say gas would have to hit $6-7 today for me to consider a different or additional fuel efficient vehicle. We do a pretty good job of living below our means, so energy prices have had very little effect on our finances. We're fortunate that my wife has a company car, so we don't have to pay for her gas for her commute and her personal use fees are minimal. I bought the Suburban used with fairly low mileage, put 1/2 down and paid it off in less than 3 years. When I buy another, I'll buy it used too. No way will I give Ford or GM $50k of my money. I'll find a one or two year old model used for 1/2 that amount and pay cash or find a low interest loan for a few years. That way I can have a solid tow vehicle and still comfortably afford our summer hobbies of camping and boating. |
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Replying to: ny540i6 (Apr 09, 2008 7:59 pm) I believe I said from walking out my front door in the morning to walking back in in the evening was 9 hours. Its a little less than an half hour round trip. |
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Replying to: bumpy (Apr 11, 2008 11:21 am) I just came back from running errands. First to the bank, which is about 4 miles away, and then to the AAA office, which is about 7 miles away, but in the opposite direction. Total trip was 22.5 miles, which cost me $3.89 just in fuel. I could've renewed my AAA membership online, saving 14 miles. However, I had a $50 rebate voucher that I could only use if I went to the office. I could probably coax 12 mpg out of my '85 Silverado on that same run. However, it has a preference for high octane, and would come out to about 30 cents per mile. Or about 3.3 miles per dollar. That same errand would've cost about $6.75 if I used the truck! Now I know these dollar amounts are fairly petty in the overall scheme of things. But they do add up. I remember back in the days before I bought my Intrepid, when paying more than $1.25 per gallon was rare, running around in something like my '68 Dart only came out to 9-10 cents per mile. Back in those days, it just didn't seem like all that much money, even accounting for inflation. Hmm, "those days". This was just back in the 90's! I must be getting old...
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Replying to: andre1969 (Apr 12, 2008 7:36 am) |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Apr 12, 2008 7:36 am) My last trip to the ski hill this season was yesterday. I drove up 35 times, and it's 50 miles round trip. My Subie gets about 22 mpg overall. So...1750 miles, ~80 gallons used, call it $3 a gallon for the last 3 months - that's $240 in gas for snowboarding this season. Or about $7 a trip. For perspective, a day ticket is $46. But a season pass only costs $199. Last year the Subie used 308 gallons or ~$926 in gas. So far this year I've burned 107 gallons of gas in the Subaru or $323. I don't want to update those numbers with the actual cost of gas - using $3 a gallon is bad enough. 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Apr 12, 2008 7:36 am) But as I was driving home from dropping him off, I started thinking: it's about 150 miles round trip, so at the price I am paying now, even in my car, the favor cost me about $15! We don't think about that kind of stuff usually, or at least I don't, because it's not money coming out of our wallet at the moment we are doing it. But the thinking of five years ago, that driving is a cheap activity that is automatic rather than one that requires weighing need against cost, needs to go out the window because trips lke this cost real money now. Not that $15 is some killer cost that is going to throw my whole budget off, but just a few trips like this one would add up to 25-50% of my car payment!
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Replying to: nippononly (Apr 12, 2008 11:35 am) I think at one point, I actually got the Intrepid down to about 5 cents per mile, when I took it on a trip back in the early '00's. I guess those days are gone forever!
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