3/gallon gas comming soon

[sbergman27]

Originally Posted by darthbauer

My Yaris is great for getting to and from work but a little more is needed on the weekends.

It's all about using the appropriate vehicle for the job. My Chevy Sprint (And do forgive me for going on so about that car; It's my pride and joy) gets about 220 passenger-miles per gallon on the highway with 4 people in it. But I'm a bit of a recluse, living alone, with no friends. And so I effectively get about 55 passenger-miles per gallon if you don't count my faithful traveling companion, Shadow, a terrier mix. The Sprint is about the best a recluse can do on the highway, except perhaps for the 1st generation Honda Insight, which is about as rare as the Dodo bird.

An 8 passenger GMC Savana van, which *always* traveled with a full complement of passengers, would be getting 160 passenger-miles per gallon. But if it traveled with only one occupant for even 30% of the time, it would be more efficient for those 8 people to just drive their own individual Sprints.

The problem is not the existence of SUVs. (Which we *used to* call *commercial* vehicles, and for good reason.) It's about using the appropriate vehicle for the job. And *very few* SUV owners in the US are really doing that, no matter how much they might want to tell themselves that they really need an SUV.

-Steve

P.S. I wonder why the high efficiency diesels, so common in Europe, and which are now a very well established technology, exhibiting amazing fuel economy, are being withheld from the U.S. market? Who in the world would have an interest in keeping them from being introduced here, I wonder?

[Kioshi]

Originally Posted by sbergman27

Who in the world would have an interest in keeping them from being introduced here, I wonder?

i love this statement...thats how the govt. does it...put us in the hole~

Gas has been at $3.05 since November for me, in Fremont, CA. I'm paying $3.27 for gas at Shell now...

And i agree gas should be $5 because other countries have been seeing those costs for quite a long time, just something new to us in America...and yes, it'd would change how people drive..if prices continue to stay at $5~~