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Article #518Re: Diesel-powered Cars - My dollars worth
From: Trevor J. Smedley
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1986 16:17
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1986 16:17
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>From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh
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>I considered paying a $2000 premium to get a Volvo diesel. Considering
>I drive a car 120,000 miles and would get 25 mpg of gas versus 40 mpg of
>diesel, a diesel would save me 1,800 gallons or about $1,800. Thus a net
>loss of $200. Needless to say I didn't go the diesel route.
Do you really think that gas will cost $1.00 a gallon for the entire
120,000 miles? I'd guess at an average price of $2-$4 or even more for
that period of time. Gas already costs at least $2/gal in most of the
world. And *very* much more in some places.
Trevor J. Smedley University of Waterloo
{decvax,allegra,ihnp4,clyde,utzoo}!watmum!tjsmedley
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmum.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!watnot!watmum!tjsmedley From: tjsmedley@watmum.UUCP (Trevor J. Smedley) Newsgroups: net.auto.tech,net.auto Subject: Re: Diesel-powered Cars - My dollars worth Message-ID: <362@watmum.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 11:17:31 EST Article-I.D.: watmum.362 Posted: Thu Jan 16 11:17:31 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jan-86 03:18:41 EST References: <1553@ihlpg.UUCP> <2052@akgua.UUCP> <482@mhuxl.UUCP> Reply-To: tjsmedley@watmum.UUCP (Trevor J. Smedley) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 17