Toyota Diesel
Hope this isn't old news, but news to me. Just read that Tundra will come out with a Cummins in 2016. Optional I assume.
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sleepy wrote:
If the price at the pump is exactlly the same between gasoline and diesel...
diesel is still much cheaper.
Because diesel gets so many more mpg
On my best day my old 3/4 ton gasoline fueled truck got 9.9 mpg
With my Lance 1161 fully loaded I actually have almost 70,000 miles averaging 15.1 mpg using diesel (my trucks computer read out and verified)
If both fuels are $4.00/gallon
My old gasoline engine would require 505.05 gallons to go 5000 mile which would cost $2020.20
My diesel engine would require 331.12 gallons to go 5000 miles which would cost $1324.50
That is a $695.69 savings over 5000 milesat $4.00/gallon
That is $24,349.38 saved in fuel over a gasoline engine for the 70,000 miles that I have had my Duramax if both gasoline and diesel are both priced at exactly $4.00/gallon.
It appears to me that the extra cost of the diesel engine has been well worth it...
Your math is wrong. $695.69 in savings per 5000 miles. 70,000/5000 = 14. $695.69*14 = $ 9,739.66 in savings in 70k miles. So you've now offset the cost of the diesel upgrade with diesel = gas in costs per gallon.
To bad diesel has basically been costing at 50 cents a gallon more than gas for almost 10 years now.
