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Old 06-06-2008, 11:00 PM
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alright, for all the oil burners that will soon see $5 diesel.
Questions pretty simple, how many mpgs would a car have to get to make you get rid of the rig. No parking the rig cause its paid for.


Oh if you want to see something interesting google cityCAT MDI, air powered car.
Its a lil over 13k over seas, runs soley off of air. They est that it costs 2 bucks worth of air from a gas station to fill up the tank. I did the math, if diesels at 5 bucks a gal and it costs 2 bucks to fill up the air tanks it would equal 300 mpg.
 
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At my yearly mileage, I could save around 5k per year if I had a Jetta tdi.
 
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I got the bike to make up the for the price of fuel. I dont really want to talk about it.
 
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Old 06-06-2008, 11:10 PM
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Have to justify a lot more than MPG for me to ditch the truck.

Can it do what I need it to do? If not, MPG does mean squat.
 
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Old 06-06-2008, 11:16 PM
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Old 06-06-2008, 11:18 PM
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Have to justify a lot more than MPG for me to ditch the truck.

Can it do what I need it to do? If not, MPG does mean squat.
Ditch my truck?

Oh HELL NO, that ain't happening, I'm just saying I'm considering another vehicle as a semi daily driver.

 
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I will never sell my truck. Even if diesel isn't made anymore, or for whatever reason I can;t even drive my truck, I will still keep it just to look at everyday.... it always makes mesmile.

If I were to buy a car as a daily driver to replace my truck through the week, it would have to get at least 45+ mpg and still be somewhat fun to drive.... so it will never happen .
 
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i will just keep paying whatever it costs to drive my truck.
 
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I could save a lot of money switching to a little car. If I could get something cheap (less than $3000) that got around 35 I'd probably park the truck.
 


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