Suburban Diesel Fuel Mileage Test
TFL drove a Surburban with a Duramax diesel made ~27mpg with a range of 612 miles driving on fumes. Pretty impressive setup but again highway miles is where todays diesel emission diesels shine. L...
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GDS-3950BH wrote:There is always someone that wants to tout what the price difference is in their small corner of the world. It is IMO a poor way to make a vehicle decision. Gas and diesel prices are ALWAYS changing. There are times when diesel is quite a bit cheaper than gas (the gas lovers are nowhere to be found on the forums then) and their are times when the opposite is true.
Around here with diesel running around $0.45 to $0.55 more per gallon than unleaded consistently, sometimes more, it's a wash. 2018 Burb with 6.0 would get a consistent 19.5 highway.
20 gallons UL @ 19.5mpg @ $2.50 = $50.00/390 miles/ $0.1282 per mile.
20 gallons D @ 27mpg @ $3.00 = $60.00/540 miles/ $0.1111 per mile.
I guess if saving $0.0171 per mile gets you off, it's incredible, thats a whopping $1710 over 100K miles which pays for the $1000.00 upcharge to the 3.0, with $710.00 to spare. Just hope the difference between fuels does not increase to $0.60 or god forbid $0.70
TFL......LOL......those guys need to get real jobs. They have too much time on their hands and too many cult like followers paying them to do basically nothing providing useless info and reviews/tests such as those IKE towing comparisons.
There are 3 constants in this:
#1Gas proponents loudly proclaim gas advantages when the price of it is low.
#2Diesel fans do the same when it's price is low.
#3Diesel ALWAYS gets better MPGs.
BTW, We have both gas and diesel vehicles in our household. It has come in handy in times when there was a gas availability problem,,,,Diesel has always been available for some reason.But if the reverse ever happens, we are prepared for it.
