[thechat] Petrol prices/mileage
Martin Burns
yumyum at easyweb.co.uk
Thu Aug 19 05:52:24 CDT 2004
Deacon wrote:
>Over the course of 150,000 miles,
Assuming what mix of urban/suburban/open road driving?
> a Corolla is going to use 5,000
>gallons of gas, and a Prius is going to use 3,000 gallons of gas.
>Seems to me like gas would have to hit $7 a gallon for you to break
>even on that Prius - and that isn't counting the extra money you would
>spend to finance and insure the Prius.
$7/US Gallon is ~$1.90/litre, which is as near to £1 as makes little difference.
Petrol prices in the UK are currently around £0.80, and imo long term only going to go up.
Add the (massively) reduced company car tax and consider that if were buying A N Other
car, it'd prolly be an Audi A4, and I think I'm not far off.
(Oh, also, all the nice - yet essential - toys that come as standard on the Prius are
optional extras everywhere else)
Cheers
Martin
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