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ChadTower:

Diesel here is $1 more per gallon than regular gas.  Increase your mileage and take an instant huge gas price increase... it's a push.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 16, 2008, 09:20:07 am ---
Diesel here is $1 more per gallon than regular gas.  Increase your mileage and take an instant huge gas price increase... it's a push.

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This Ford uses half the amount of fuel of a regular car right? So even if the price of diesel is double that of gasoline, the fuel consumption would cost you the same. So that equasion only comes out comparable if you pay $1 per gallon of gasoline (and $2 for diesel).

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: patrickl on September 16, 2008, 09:24:52 am ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 16, 2008, 09:20:07 am ---
Diesel here is $1 more per gallon than regular gas.  Increase your mileage and take an instant huge gas price increase... it's a push.

--- End quote ---
This Ford uses half the amount of fuel of a regular car right? So even if the price of diesel is double that of gasoline, the fuel consumption would cost you the same. So that equasion only comes out comparable if you pay $1 per gallon of gasoline (and $2 for diesel).

--- End quote ---


You're leaving out the additional cost of the car.  A small car like that here would normally cost maybe $10,000 less than the price in that article.  At least it did until this current period and people haven't even come close to making the mental adjustment to the compact low power cars being the pricey ones.  They're still trying to figure out why their 2 year old 8 cyl SUV they paid $38,000 for is now worth $7,500 in trade instead of the $25,000 they would have gotten 5 years ago.

patrickl:
True, but I was responding to your comparison of mileage and "gasoline vs diesel" price difference. Indeed I'd say you'd save about $500 to maybe $1000 a year. So hardly worth the extra cost of the car. Depending on how much you drive obviously, but you won't be driving a car like this when you need to drive long distances.

Actually in Europe diesel is a lot cheaper than gasoline. So the fuel cost savings would be about double.

I don't trust diesel though. I still think it's filthy fuel. They just measure it the wrong way (total amount of soot in exhaust rather than a count of particles)

M.Lanza:
Well, soot is made up of particles.

 :dunno

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