[Vwdiesel] diesel prices

David Cook vwdieselbunny at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 25 11:31:47 EST 2006


Plus I bet you can't mix free vegetable oil in a
gasser's tank with nearly as good of results as you
can get when doing it on a diesel!  LOL

David 

--- LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:

>   Ok, I come up with ~ $2.70 being about 15% higher
> than $2.35.  Sucks
> yes, price should be less than reg yes.  BUT (and
> lets just keep this 
> between us smarter and better looking folk) if your
> gas Jetta is making 
> 32mpg, you're breaking even at about 37mpg.  That
> should be about 
> right for highway miles on a gasser and everyone but
> me makes better 
> mileage than that with their Jetta.  ;-)  Thing is,
> the diesel is kinda like 
> a hybrid in that it makes as good or sometimes
> better mileage in town 
> as on the highway.  The gasser doesn't so your
> mileage differential is 
> even better if you drive mostly city miles.
>   Take a full size pickup, say it gets 14mpg gas
> then anything over 16mpg 
> is better.  Put a load on it and the drop in mileage
> is far less on the 
> diesel than the gas.
>   We're still ahead but not like we should be.  :-P
>      Loren
>

David Cook
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and others in various states of disrepair
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