The car I chose to compair was a brand new 2009 Volkswagen Jetta. I chose this vehicle because my brother wants to buy one in the near future and I hope that I killed two birds with one stone.
The 2009 Volkswagen Jetta 4-door SE Sedan's MSRP price is $21,670.00. Kbb.com also has a feature that showes what consumers are paying for the vehicle and that price is $21,453.00. The specifications for this car are as follows: gas mileage 20 mpg city / 29 mpg highway; engine size 5-Cyl, 2.5 Liter; Automatic Transmission, 6-Spd w/Overdrive & Triptonic; Front wheel drive; 4 door.
The 2009 Volkswagen Jetta 4-door TDI Sedan's MSRP price is $23,740.00. The price consumers are paying option price consumers are paying for the vehicle is $24,215.00. The specifications for this car are as follows: gas mileage 29 mpg city / 40 mpg highway; engine size 4-Cyl Turbo Diesel 2.0 Liter; Automatic Transmission, 6-Spd w/Overdrive & Tiptronic; Front wheel drive; 4 door.Basing the price comparison of of the price consumers are paying you will pay $2,762.00 more for the diesel option. So if you purchase this vehicle you will pay more when you buy it. But over the course of a year or two depending on how much you drive by the time you hit 30,000 miles you would have saved over $1,400.00 in fuel savings and an additional $1,400.00 every 10,000 miles after that.
Basically what I'm trying to tell you is that before you turn away from a diesel because it costs a few grand more. Look at the fuel savings in the long run. Pay more now for the vehicle and drive forever for much cheaper than you could drive a gas vehicle.
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My husband drives a diesel truck and he is so happy the the price of diesel is going down. Although I still don't see much relief on the wallet side because it would still cost $150.00 to fill his truck up. On the other hand my car is gasoline SUV and it only costs me about $30-$40 to fill it up now.
I wonder how much it would be to fill up one of those green cars?
This is a good post: I love that you are using your research for personal reasons and for academic ones (generally I find that this is the best sort of writing).
Your argument is clear here and supported. But do you think now that gas prices have gone down so much that people will agree with you and consider a diesel engine? I hope so. I wonder, are those calculations with current gas prices or with the ones that were higher?
The gas prices I used were from the day of my post so they are a few weeks old. But there are only 5 gas stations in the richmond area that sell biodiesel and I chose to use that one so I could give my readers a price for that as well. The calculations are still the same no matter what the price is you save alot of money in the long run.
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