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Common Sense and a Gas Cost Calculator
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The world has gone gas price crazy. To read CNN you would think that the last barrels of oil are on their way right now. Articles like this article from CNN prove just how far crazy things have gotten. Buying a $9000 Geo Metro to save gas just defies math. For one, the Geo Metro is worth only $500. So that gives you a vehicle that has to save you $8500 worth of gas. Even with my big 6 passenger Durango I could drive over 2 1/2 years on that gas. With an average car you could drive 5 years on that gas and equal the same amount. After you are done with Geo you have a vehicle that is worthless and more than likely have to be junked causing environmental damage. While the average car will keep on trotting along and will most likely be sold returning some of your money. During your tenure with the Geo you will suffer along with no amenities (most likely no air conditioning and crank windows), extremely bad acceleration (you won’t be able to get out of the way of traffic), and crash worthiness of a beer can. Its true the US uses too much foreign oil and alternatives need to be found but common sense seems to be something we are lacking more than oil reserves. If people bought vehicles that fit their lifestyle and purchased the greenest car they could we would be vastly better off. We in no way need to resort to buying beer can cars, the solution to our problem is buying the best car, the longest lasting car, the most logical solution for our daily transit. For that reason I am including a Fuel Cost Calculator link, this way you can do that math and see how much you were spending last year and this year and then make your own judgment. For me and my gas guzzling Durango my extra expenditure this year would be about $600, far out weighing the hit on resale I’ll take if I were to trade it in.
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