Gas Prices Got Ya Down???
This is one of the hottest used car requests we have, and it's hard for me to find enough of them. It's a Toyota ECHO. According to www.fueleconomy.gov, this used vehicle gets 41 mpg with a manual transmission. That makes it one of the best used car choices for used vehicles in the early 2000s, except for the hybrid vehicles like the Toyota Prius, Honda Insight, Honda Civic Hybrid and a few VW diesel powered cars (all of these are good choices, too, btw.)I took this photo of a vehicle we sold several months ago, before the fuel prices started rising again. It's ironic that on the billboard above the top of the vehicle, there's a comment about "gas prices". Funny eh, because that wasn't intended. :-)
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posted by Jim at 4:56 PM
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I recently caught a report on the local news that showed where using your car's cruise control improves fuel milage. It also indicated that maintaining the proper tire pressure does the same and improves safety.
Maybe more people will consider moving closer to work and riding their bicycles to work or using public transportation. I haven't ridden my bicycle in years and it has now become a collectors item (Schwinn AppleKrate).
What and where's a great place to purchase a bicycle?
Do you think that we will see any viable form of tax breaks for people that chose solutions that save on fossile fuel consumption?
I heard from one local Toyota dealer that Toyota's line of vehicles will be predominantly hybrid by 2008/2009.
But I wonder really how much a hybrid saves you in the price of gas if you have to replace an expensive battery during a vehicles lifetime.
Do you think Uncle Sam would increase that tax writeoff for hybrid technology to move consumers to more fuel-efficient vehicles? Hmmm.... Probably not. Might not
be a bad idea though. How about tax writeoffs for vehicles above 30mpg fuel efficiency? :)
What you can do to help the United States with its addiction to oil
http://floridapirg.org/FL.asp?id2=23696
Perhaps moving to biodiesel would be
the best solution. Given the amount
time Americans go to McDonalds, making
biodiesel should be a viable alternative to the current oil addition we have.
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