09-03-2006, 05:56 PM
Maengelito Wrote:ViPER1313 Wrote:People who buy expensive powerful cars really don't care about gas mileage. My father's SUV gets 17mpg in straight highway driving with no AC usage. When I asked him why he doesn't get rid of it considering the price of gas (plus the fact its a slow ugly POS) he said "you don't buy a yacht if you can't afford to put gas in it." He really couldn't give a shit that it gets 17mpg - he likes the car, and the price of gas doesn't dip into his life style in the least.
agreed. my commute isnt bad, and i dont care much for the difference between $2.80 /gal and $3.10 /gal (fill up just under 1/4 notch = ~12 gal x $.30 difference which is $3.60 every 1.5 weeks, i dont care) so i dont mind driving the suby. if i cared about gas prices, then i'd have bought a civic or rsx or something.
The consensus seems to be that 3.00 gas isn't going to modify behavior but economists thinkt that 4.00 per gallon will do just that and that is the supposition that I'm making. My uneducated guess would be that we will have 4 dollar a gallon gas within 5 years so producing big ass sedans/trucks/suvs with terrible gas mileage isn't a good long term business model.
Also, my buddy spends 100+ dollars per week on gas which a terrible and unnecessary cost.
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