LTVibe:
Neat chart. Yes I am aware of the cost of ownership. I am not worried about it though like most people. I can pay for the gas. Depreciation, not important to me because I am going to keep this vehicle until the doors fall off. The rest, well I own my truck outright so all the rest isn't important.
Kestas:
We don't have to look that far ahead now. Like I said before, they can start putting in diesel engines NOW!! They already put them in other vehicles and definitely in Europe. Most vehicles that are sold there are diesel and in vehicles made by our US companies. I want that, and I would support it in a heartbeat. However, as always there is the beaurocracy to go through. Until they pull their collective heads out of their backsides, we are at a disadvantage. And if we use up all the petrolium now, they will invent synthetic fuels. Hydrocarbons are one of the most common compounds in the universe that we know of. We can and would do it if the situation got that bad. But, have you noticed all the new, LARGE petrolium fields they are finding? Canada, Mexico, Venezuela just to name a few. Let alone all the untapped petrolium they have in the Caspian Sea region and the totally untapped reserves the have found exist in Africa! There is also the untapped reserves that are under the vast parts of the ocean we haven't even touched yet. There won't be a shortage at all for quite some time.
