Posted by MoparNorm on Wednesday, February 04, 2004 at 1:08AM :
In Reply to: Every Day For Me Is A Bad Hair Day Norm! posted by Marty on Wednesday, February 04, 2004 at 0:24AM :
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MARTY!
I think my main point was this. It really doesn't make any difference how you use your truck, my premiss is based upon fuel costs per 100,000 miles. All other unknow variables can't really be factored in because they are just that, unknown, I may go 200,000 miles and never touch a thing, the next guy may spend $8,000 on repairs in the first 500 miles, it is all unknown and can't be factored into the equasion, so my point is strictly fuel economy, and at that the diesel excels. The worse I have seen reported here is 16 mpg in the diesel, some claim and get 22 mpg. We all know that when towing the diesel's consumption stays pretty much the same, mine only drops about .5 mpg. We also know that gas motors consume nearly double when under a load. HOWEVER, I didn't even consider that in my initial calculation, I used worse case diesel economy, and BEST case gasoline consumption and STILL came up with the fact that diesels are CHEAPER to run, notwithstanding other ancilary costs.
It is irrelevant how you use them in my equasion, if you factor hauling and towing my figures, and thus the diesel advantage, would only get better, not worse.
Even in Canadian dollars! In Addition the repair costs are irrelevant if both gas and diesel vehicles are new, the warantee covers most of the cost except the filters, which are more than offset by fuel savings. Lastly, Cummins has a 36,000 mile, additional "piggy-back" warantee, after the Dodge warantee expires.
Are we done yet?
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MN
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