Now do the calculation with what you owe on the truck and see whether or not you come out ahead. For me, even if I owned my truck outright, I could not trade it in for a car. The reason is simply that I use my truck for it's intended purpose. I have a slide-in camper that will be upgraded to a pull trailer in a year or so and a car cannot pull this. Now, if I were still commuting to LA, then I could see getting something like this as my commuter car. I could realize a pretty good savings over time with an economy car as opposed to my truck. But fortunately since I am going back into the Army in 13 days and I will be living on post, I will not have to worry about fuel prices anyway. The plan is to ride my bike back and forth to work and only use the truck when I need to. But overall, with prices of gas and fuel the way they are, it makes perfect sense to get an economy vehicle if you commute.
Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the conversation the other day got me to wondering how long it would > be before I broke even on the prius. When I traded in my truck, I > still owed 18 more months at $500. > > For the calculation, I decided to make things easier and just assume > that I owned the truck. > > Constants: 30,000 miles a year on vehicle > Diesel: currently 4.59/gal > Gas: currently 3.59/gal > > Truck: 30000/20 mpg = 1500gal * 4.59 gal = $6750.00 > Prius: 30000/55 mpg = 545gal * 3.59 gal = 1988.86 + (350 * 12 months) > = $6188.86 > > That blows me away that it's cheaper for me to have the prius now! > > The price of gas and diesel really has changed a lot of things. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:260593 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
