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Massive 500 Point Drop @ the Dow
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: patrickl on September 16, 2008, 10:22:14 am ---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)
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True on normal diesel... but there are diesel alternatives that run clean. A car like this might be able to run on that unmodified. For some reason here the BioDiesel industry seems focused on corn as the main source, which is just effing the food market over. There is a small movement here to use kudzu instead. The stuff grows like a foot a day and provides nearly as much raw carbohydrates as corn does - plus it grows anywhere that it is warm with little maintenance involved. Ask someone from the southeast US. The crap has taken over several states. If we could start using that stuff as fuel...
shardian:
Anyone else check their retirement account that can? ;)
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on September 16, 2008, 10:33:06 am ---Anyone else check their retirement account that can? ;)
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I almost never look at it. I get impatient about it when I do. I manage better when I blindly drop a % in - it matches the max match my employer provides.
shardian:
I also get the max company match. I am sorely tempted to just drop everything into money market to protect my money. Since I'm young, I don't have a ton of money in there. Some of my coworkers near retirement age are getting screwed though.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on September 16, 2008, 10:40:22 am ---I also get the max company match. I am sorely tempted to just drop everything into money market to protect my money. Since I'm young, I don't have a ton of money in there. Some of my coworkers near retirement age are getting screwed though.
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Age is the key. Our accounts will bounce back. This is all cyclical stuff. The older people who don't already have their cash in super conservative stuff are going to have problems.
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