Diesel Debate

[Mark R]

I just ran the numbers for a Jetta SE versus a Jetta TDI as a company car
(20,000 miles per year for business use).

Right now, at 20K per year, even factoring in the incentive.... not worth
the TDI.  That said, it doesn't make sense to me in the long term that fuel
WON'T go up and diesel won't stabilize closer to petrol.  And the resale on
the TDI should be better than the SE... but that's just a guess.  So we
might take the gamble and buy a TDI anyhow.  It's replacing a really nice
Passat GLX (Audi AWD driveline) with 235,000 miles... which will be for sale
soon.

Mark Rosenkrantz

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:36 AM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:

> However, there are range benefits, and environmentally, since less HC's are
> burned, less CO2 is emitted per mile travelled. If bio-fuels could be made
> more viable (on a cost/storage/tranport basis, the later two are
> essentially
> in place) it could potentially make break even reasonable. FWIW, at least
> according to Car and Driver, there is apparently a Federal incentive for
> diesel vehicles of $1300 , although I haven't looked into the details about
> it. Not sure if that moves the break even point in significantly enough to
> make it worth it for most of us.
>
> LL - NY- not shopping for anything anyway
>
> On 12/4/08, Michael McLaughlin <mcloffs at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > I generally think the U.S. market is ripe for a diesel revival, but
> > one factor that could ruin it is the price of fuel. Where I live
> > (Spokane, Wash.), diesel has consistently been at least a dollar more
> > per gallon than premium unleaded. I recently ran some numbers at
> > fueleconomy.gov using the price of fuel locally, and none of the
> > diesel vehicles I plugged in (a couple Mercedes-Benzes and a Jetta)
> > were more economical fuelwise than their gas counterparts.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
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