It costs you 79.20 to drive 220m round trip at 22 gallons a rt. You get $110 for the 220m. Profit = $30.80

Ok I got 52.62 because I calculated 15mpg average because I know there is no way it could be 10.

A better guess would be at about 18mpg....Which means you will have made 66.23 ....but both of those are really bad gas mileage averages and jinx's is probably closer to the truth.

Ah well...heh...The good old oldsmobile.....

I went with 20mpg.... she's got to be getting at least 20 hwy.

Yeppers....!! But you already calculated 20....and I wasn't going with 21 or 22..That's what I was getting. Until I blew the engine the other day. Now I'm lucky I get anywhere with any amount of gas.

:)

How does not blow an engine (without being phallic)? And why are methane expenditures also relevant (just moving the thread somewhere)?

How does not blow an engine? wtf?

Your other question, that is actually readable, answer: I have been complaining a lot lately about the price of gas for my commute lately. I had forgotten how lucky I was to have a functioning car. The price of gas is going to pale in comparison for what I have to spend on a new vehicle, all of a sudden, and I should have been grateful that I even had one. How does this relate to the conversation? Not only am I going to have to find another vehic. pronto., one of the first qualifiers will be gas efficiency, when it never has been in the past.

Thanks for asking.
Now that I might have your attention:
Thank you for responding to me and various others, in other threads...You are very easy to talk to, especially when being asked direct questions.
:cool:

Exactly.

Cic, I have a 12 yr old car that gets me in the mid 20 per gallon - I am so ready for a new car, but I'm having trouble justifying the cost for the same or decreased mileage. It just doesn't seem right to me. On the other hand being newly single I want a better car than I have. lookin at the Mazda 3 or the Nissan Sentra sport right now.

In that case, classicman, why don't you get a car with the highest fuel economy you can find?

Because of the limited supply of green matter
















$$$$$MONEY$$$$$

My next car :heartpump

A used car dealer down the street from us had a grey-market Smart car for sale for a while. It was something like $38,000...jeez!

BigV, when I was in Germany last summer I saw lots of Smarts.

This is what I've been driving the last 5 years (but in blue).

http://www.insightcentral.net/_images/about-side.jpg

Shawnee, you are $32 ahead.

220 x.505= 111.10 your reimbursement
220/10= 22 the gallons of gas you used
22*3.59= 78.98 the money you spent on gas
111.10-78.98 = 32.12 how much you have left from your reimbursement after you pay your self back.

D'oh, Merc already 'splained you. never mind

And I believe she could be getting 10mpg in her car. I've had vehicles like that.

bigw00dy, did you ever get the Prius?

More importantly did you pay sticker price or a premium on top of that. News has it that dealers are charging a premium for green cars to make up for losses.

No, not yet. I shoulda jumped when I originally made the post. They are next-to-impossible to come about now.

I still can't justify it anyway. I have no payments on my current vehicle.

And my current vehicle (99 toyo pickup w/ 300k miles) will bring absolutely no money on a trade in.

But the gas prices are making me feel trapped in a corner, sprinkled with a little confusion....

bigw00dy,
these guys will totally hook you up.
http://patentpending.blogs.com/paten...ogy/index.html

I think they refill that confusion shaker every time someone like me comes along...they say "Say when" and I just get out a good novel...wait...what were we talking about?

Did I ask this already? IF so, apologies.

I've been reading about and hearing about hybrid cars. All these great promises that the car will get like, 35 MPG. Huh? My 1990 CRX got THAT, and it was the sports model. There was an HF version that got around 50.

So, WHY do you now have to get a hybrid to get the mileage you used to be able to get with a smaller car?

I smell something akin to planned obsolescence re: gas refills.

Cars are much bigger now.

You look at a car like the Honda Accord and follow its size over the years, and you would be amazed at how big they have grow.

Hatchbacks are making a comeback, but there aren't nearly as many as there used to be in the 80s.

My mom had a Ford Festiva back in the mid 80s and early 90s.

38 city, 40 hwy.

That car was awesome. I got to borrow it for a year. I'm 6'2" and I had tons of headroom in this car. I once bought a full sized recliner chair at Goodwill and brought it home in the back of the Festiva. I folded the back seat down, and had to move the driver's seat forward a little, but it fit completely inside with the back hatch closed. A freaking Lazy Boy!

The back seats were a little small, but they were fine. I rode on a couple long trips back there. It was an awesome around town car. Could park it anywhere.

I would love to have a modern version of this car with air bags. Smart Car is probably the closest thing, but is too small. Only carries 2 passengers.

I agree with what glatt posted. Cars also have a lot more safety features, like air bags, ABS, side impact protection, CHMSLs, etc., which add weight. And cars have a lot more power than they did 20 years ago.

My car weighs 1860 pounds and has a 1-liter engine. I think these things are more important than the fact that it's a hybrid in determining fuel economy.

So, besides safety features and in spite of our penchant for bigger is better, they could still make cars that get decent gas mileage?

As far as power, that little Honda had more get up and go than many of the more expensive sports cars I've seen.

Except for some of the pinstriping I had (and possibly the pirelli tires which I replaced once before opting for a cheaper tire), this website has a car that looks like mine did. I would consider buying a brand NEW car if they started manufacturing these again.

Notice the similarities between the Honda CRX and the Insight:

http://www.designercars.dk/biler/Honda-CRX-3.jpg

http://www.automedia.com/NewCarBuyer...ight_ext_1.jpg

Cool! 70 mpg? Those are out of production too, but if I am ever in the position to look for a car I will see if I can find a used one (brand new cars depreciate the second you drive them off the lot anyway.)

I googled that and read that they went out of production because so many are not interested in the two-door/2 seater, which makes sense, and more people were going for a prius or a honda civic hybrid.

With no kids I don't even need two seats. ;)

If you live where it's flat you might get 70 mpg. I live where it's not so flat and get about 67.

It's way flat!

Like the Flatskills, man. Flat Diego. Cincinflatti. Flatcramento.

Uh, never mind. That joke fell flat.

A friend of mine was building Fiestas from Fiestas for quite a while. Tough little cars. The Toyota Echo I traded in last fall was getting low 40's consistantly. It didn't measure up to my big American lifestyle. I like not being crushed by absurdly large SUV's with distracted er multi-tasking drivers. The Flattskills line was sufficient. :)

CYPRESS, Calif. (AP) - Violence broke out at the gas pumps in Orange County. Police say a La Palma doctor waiting in line to buy gas at the Costco warehouse store in Cypress grabbed a tire iron and confronted a motorist who cut into the line.
Sgt. Tom Bruce said the doctor was arrested and booked for investigation of brandishing a deadly weapon in a rude, angry or threatening manner, a misdemeanor.

Witnesses told police the doctor was in line at the pumps Monday evening when another vehicle cut in front of him. When the doctor confronted the motorist with a tire iron, the other driver locked himself in his car and called police.