Diesel vs gas......................

Hannibal wrote:

rhagfo wrote:


Do you still grin when you need to stop twice as often to fuel up as a diesel?

Stop and think about that cost of operation, with gas at about $3.70 a gal, and Diesel at $4.10 that is only a 10 percent difference in cost of fuel, and if I get 12 mpg and you get 7 mpg, that is 40 percent better fuel mileage, I am making up the cost difference and then add the higher resale, and I just keep grinning!

I would like to undersand where gas drivers get that diesel has higher maintenance cost, oil changes only need to happen at most half as often as gas, so that becomes a push with almost twice the amount of oil.
No regular scheduled tune ups, belts, hoses, and coolant about the same as my old 460 gasser.

Once again Diesel isn't for everyone, that is just a fact, but don't slam it just because you don't want it, don't slam it.

I pull about 12K 18.5K GCVW, and would not want to do with a gas engine.

Don't know about the poster you're assuming but, I stop at the same 200~ mile stops I always have gas or diesel. And yes I smile a lot.
I've thought about fuel mileage. I got 10.5~ towing our 10k~ lb 5th wheel with our diesels and got 8.5~ towing the same 5th wheel the same speeds over the same routes with our previous Hemi powered 2500HD Ram.
Since you pay $10k~ more for a diesel pickup when you buy it, I certainly hope you get more for it when you sell it.
I change my 7 qts of oil at 5k miles in my 5.4L F250. Same with the Hemi. The Cummins 12qts got changed at 7500 miles.
Not sure what tune ups you refer to. The plugs aren't scheduled for change until 100k miles. All else is the same except 25k on the fuel filters. If you're comparing to an old 460, lets be fair and use a '95~ diesel for comparison.
It's seems you're the one slamming other peoples' engine choices. If the differences where as drastic as you claim, I would have traded back to diesel long ago. It just isn't so.