the things I think about while I'm driving so I'm doing some stop and go
driving in the rain and I look across the gas station and see that regular is
at $3.599 while diesel is at $3.899 no problem diesel is always more
expensive than regular anyway so to entertain myself I start to do some
calculating earlier on radio program a caller said that he was getting 50 miles
to the gallon in his Volkswagen diesel wow I thought that is about seven cents
per mile and that is impressive then I thought about my own car using regular
and I'm getting about 22 miles per gallon about 16 cents per mile then
there's a hybrid car that gets about 40 miles per gallon then it hit me a new
small Buick costs around 22,000 a hybrid cost about 24,000 I guess but a Volkswagen
diesel is only $18,000 brand new you figure the savings on your own car
hmm at 10,000 miles my car would cost me $1,600 in gasoline in 10 years that
$16,000 in gasoline at today's cost yes my car is 13 years old meanwhile the
diesel car would only be around $770 per year if the car traveled 10,000 miles
and in 10 years that would be $7,778 what my car is costing me 227%
more gasoline what is that speaking about gasoline I want you to note the
cost of gasoline today because as you know much of our oil is now coming from
America that's right I suspect that since that is the case we can expect that
gasoline prices will not be going down soon OPEC countries used to bribe us
remember every time they thought that there was something that's going to
affect their selling of gasoline they would lower the price of crude oil but
I ask you what incentive does the American oil company have to lower their
prices but I could be wrong all of this thinking is giving me a headache anyway
besides nobody buys car or any car because of what is going to cost them to
run and to maintain we all buy cars as matter of fact we don't buy cars at all
we are sold cars by American car salesman and of course once we own it we
have to convince ourselves that we love it don't we oh well I have my camera I'm
gonna go shoot some pictures
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