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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Here's the sum and substance of the gas vs diesel debate for me:
I drive a truck for a living. It's a diesel. It's also a very powerful diesel, it runs reeeeeely strong -- reeeeeeeely reeeeeely strong. Every day driving it is like going hunting --- finding that really sharp looking, brand new truck w' all the bells and whistles and just making it look pathetic on the hills.. Stupid? Probably yes. Fun? Undeniably yes! Since I'm in an expedited type of business and it shortens up my trip times by not slowing down on the hills, it also makes good business sense. I don't have time to screw around and I'm well paid for accomplishing regularly what others apparently can't make happen.
Now, after driving a truck like that, year after year for hundreds of thousands (maybe a million) miles, having a vehcile that when you push on the skinny pedal, something happens, why would I want to get into a little gas popper and struggle around with my fiver? Getting in everyone's way and being the last guy to arrive at camp cuz I couldn't keep up w/ traffic, falling on my nose on every little grade etc, etc. while everyone else just leaves it on cruise and motors off into the sunset would just be wrong! Just plain wrong!!
And that's why I have a diesel and love to drive it and wouldn't have it any other way. If it happens to cost a little more, so be it, cuz it's worth so much more - to me anyway.
I drive a truck for a living. It's a diesel. It's also a very powerful diesel, it runs reeeeeely strong -- reeeeeeeely reeeeeely strong. Every day driving it is like going hunting --- finding that really sharp looking, brand new truck w' all the bells and whistles and just making it look pathetic on the hills.. Stupid? Probably yes. Fun? Undeniably yes! Since I'm in an expedited type of business and it shortens up my trip times by not slowing down on the hills, it also makes good business sense. I don't have time to screw around and I'm well paid for accomplishing regularly what others apparently can't make happen.
Now, after driving a truck like that, year after year for hundreds of thousands (maybe a million) miles, having a vehcile that when you push on the skinny pedal, something happens, why would I want to get into a little gas popper and struggle around with my fiver? Getting in everyone's way and being the last guy to arrive at camp cuz I couldn't keep up w/ traffic, falling on my nose on every little grade etc, etc. while everyone else just leaves it on cruise and motors off into the sunset would just be wrong! Just plain wrong!!
And that's why I have a diesel and love to drive it and wouldn't have it any other way. If it happens to cost a little more, so be it, cuz it's worth so much more - to me anyway.
