Diesel vs gas......................
OK folks, there have been a few to many diesel vs gas threads that have shall we say gone to "Hell and a hand basket"! So if all of you would put in you BEST, no flaming reasons for going gas vs diese...
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My wife, who teaches high school science, says I am a friggin' optimist about her commute. It's 16 full stops on her 30-minute, 19-mile one-way daily commute, six of them just to get out of town, and that she hits 55-60 mph exactly twice for about 60-90 seconds each during that time. She swears that little baby dinosaurs will be pouring out the tailpipe, that the mpg will be that of a heavy tracked vehicle (gallons per mile), and that her diesel particulate emissions will rival those of a Chinese peat-fired power plant.
My 12.5 mile, 22-minute daily commute would barely warm up a big diesel and, while 8 miles of it is freeway, requires 14 full stops including the same six just to get out of town.
It looks more and more like we'd be better off keeping the car we'd trade in for a tow vehicle, and just store the tow vehicle in the 45-week off season, while taking it out for an hour on the freeway every other week then. That would result in more than half its 4500+ annual pre-retirement milage being diesel happy time towing an RV on the freeway.
My 12.5 mile, 22-minute daily commute would barely warm up a big diesel and, while 8 miles of it is freeway, requires 14 full stops including the same six just to get out of town.
It looks more and more like we'd be better off keeping the car we'd trade in for a tow vehicle, and just store the tow vehicle in the 45-week off season, while taking it out for an hour on the freeway every other week then. That would result in more than half its 4500+ annual pre-retirement milage being diesel happy time towing an RV on the freeway.
