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At $7/gallon you'd be saving $3,600 per year and it would still take you between 7 - 10 years to see any realized savings.
Still too costly...
I drive 100 miles per week because I moved close to where I work. I fill up my Corolla every third week. I personally don't care how high gas goes. I got around town just fine on a bicycle when I was in college and only cranked my car about twice a week. I can do it again, and only use ten gallons every two months if necessary.
If the cost of fuel is too high for you, I suggest a smaller car or a bicycle (or both) and a move to a place where you won't have to drive so much. It certainly worked for me.
I drive 100 miles per week because I moved close to where I work. I fill up my Corolla every third week. I personally don't care how high gas goes. I got around town just fine on a bicycle when I was in college and only cranked my car about twice a week. I can do it again, and only use ten gallons every two months if necessary.
If the cost of fuel is too high for you, I suggest a smaller car or a bicycle (or both) and a move to a place where you won't have to drive so much. It certainly worked for me.
I work from home...
I'd drive my motorcycle if I was worried about fuel effciency. Nothing like riding a 200 mph vehicle that gets 65 mpg.
The Volt has been an overpriced joke since it came out. At $45,000 for the Volt compared to $20,000 for the Cruze, it only got 4 mpg more on a combined 1,000 mile test. It is time to discontinue this piece of crap for good. This says it all right here:
I read the Chevy Volt has $15,000 worth of batteries that have a known life of about 5 years with normal driving. So when you are ready to sell your 5 year old Volt to the used market and buy a new car, your 5 year old car needs $15,000 worth of batteries.
That means your car is like a computer. Virtually no resale value after a few years.
Kudos to roysoldboy and all of the other standout posters on this thread; Americans, and especially those of us here in SoCal, as well as the rest of addicted-to-imports California, have been buying and immensely enjoying our imports nonstop for well over thirty years, as illustrated by the fact that either the Accord, Civic, Corolla or Camry has been the best selling car annually in this state ever since.
Economics 101--Give the public a product they can trust and enjoy, price it intelligently, and you'll sell every one of them with only modest rebates from time to time.
Furthermore, if the imbeciles in Congress continue to erect preposterous roadblocks to efficiency and success as they did with the first round of pointless CAFE standards in the mid-eighties, as automobile guru-of-gurs Bob Lutz pointed out in his fabulous book 'Car Guys Vs. Bean Counters, shake your head in disgust, and if you were a Japanese automaker back then, say a rousing yet polite 'thank you' for making it much easier for us to snare even more market share.
Tossing the horrendously non-competitive Volt out into a marketplace where Hyunda can't make the white-hot selling Sonata or Elantra fast enough, and where Nissan, Toyota, Mazda & Ford have some standout products out there for $16K-$25K is beyond asinie.
The Volt is yet another indictment as to why Soviet/Socialistic centeral-planners never succeed in a consumer-driven marketplace where humans are encouraged to activate their imaginations as opposed to activate their EBT or SNAP cards.
Bribing people with $10,000 checks in order to cajole them into buying a car is a total waste of taxpayer money; for $42,000 (or $32,000 including the rebate), the choice of far superior and infinitely more practical automobiles is just this side of unlimited.
The Volt has been an overpriced joke since it came out. At $45,000 for the Volt compared to $20,000 for the Cruze, it only got 4 mpg more on a combined 1,000 mile test. It is time to discontinue this piece of crap for good. This says it all right here:
It would be smart to table Volt production until its cost gap versus alternative products is reduced, with the idiotic 40 mile range vastly improved.
Keeping a product alive should not be done simply to keep people employed, when as a business model, it makes no sense.
Yes it makes no sense but when the union now owns what is it around 20% of GM thanks to the wonderful bailout what do you expect. They all got big fat bonus checks this year too while the taxpayers are still holding the bag.
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