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Originally Posted by BadKitty
I am loving the 35mpg i get with my saturn, even with my bike i tow I get 33mpg or so!
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I've always wondered why more people don't do that. My dad owned a dodge pick-up for a while so he could haul his quad around. He drove the truck every day to work and got 11mpg for one time a year he would take his quad some where. I told him to buy something smaller that could pull a small trailer, which is most vehicles. I've updated the numbers for currentish gas prices and a conservative mpg, but this was the basic idea I laid out to him.
60 miles day @ 300 work days: 18000 miles / 11mpg = 1636 gallons @ $3.00 per gallon = $4908
60 miles day @ 300 work days: 18000 miles / 20mpg = 900 gallons @ $3.00 per gallon = $2700
So basically it's a $2,000 difference, which would pay for a trailer in 1 year. Not to mention all the bunnies you would be saving.