The savings are adding up!

[Prius Maximus]

By getting a Prius and retiring my Dodge Neon (that got decent mileage - almost 28 mpg overall), I have saved over $1,000.00 in gas money in the first year.

More importantly, I have used 535 fewer gallons of gas. If this car lasts 10 years & 350,000 miles, I will eventually save almost 5,500 gallons of gas.

[Sufferin' Prius Envy]

Prius Maximus,

It is OK to let go of old misconceptions . . . you are now a Prius owner . . . 28 MPG is not “decent mileage.”

Repeat after me: "Anything under 40 miles per gallon sucks!"
And again: . . .
And again: . . .

Good. :mrgreen:

[Wolfman]

I dunno, I'm quite happy that my 6600 pound 3/4 ton full size truck will push 24 mpg on the highway when driven nicely.

[Prius Maximus]

<<It is OK to let go of old misconceptions . . . you are now a Prius owner . . . 28 MPG is not “decent mileage.”>>

:iagree
I guess I should have said decent mileage for obsolete, old-fashioned cars!


<<Repeat after me: "Anything under 40 miles per gallon sucks!">>

Anything under 48 miles per gallon sucks!
Anything under 48 miles per gallon sucks!
Anything under 48 miles per gallon sucks!
Anything under 48 miles per gallon sucks!

I just can't seem to accept 40 being ok anymore!!!

[cptdenny]

>>I have saved over $1,000.00 in gas money in the first year.

More importantly, I have used 535 fewer gallons of gas. >>

I hate to burst your bubble, you have driven over 34K miles in about a year and not saved but wasted 320 gallons of fuel in the process over the average annual mileage of 18K miles per year. My daughter works 1.5 miles from home, she uses my former SUV which gets an average 15 "true" MPG. She uses about 1 gallon a week to commute, and drives 6K miles per year total, using about 400 gallons total per year, do you see the irony now? I'll probably also do 6K miles on my new Prius and use no more than 120 gallons in the process. Point being, owning a Prius is good but you can still be wasteful at the same time.

[mikepaul]

I go where I want to go, and spend less money on the gas it takes to go there than it'd cost in my now-departed 1999 Kia Sephia.

I go farther than I *need* to go, so that may qualify as waste. IMHO, too bad...

[finman]

I did 22,500 miles for one year with a 1,000 gallon savings over my old 15 MPG SUV. Everyone's ave miles per year is different. I'd like to be able to drive less, save more fuel. Not everyone can, meaning not everyone has a short commute.
Not to be left out of the equation, how about the environmental savings: 28,500 lbs of crud would've been spewed by my old SUV in the 22,500 miles. (22,500 miles/15 MPG = 1,500 gallons times 19 lbs. = 28,500). The Prius, just 9,000 lbs. (22,500/47 MPG = 478 gallons times 19 lbs. = 9095). This is based on 19 lbs. of carbon, nitrogen, etc. per one gallon burned gas from this site: http://www.40mpg.org/getinf/release.cfm
I'd like to know if this seems accurate as far as the pollution that one gallon of burned gas puts out. Feedback, please!

[Sufferin' Prius Envy]

My daughter works 1.5 miles from home, she uses my former SUV which gets an average 15 "true" MPG. She uses about 1 gallon a week to commute, and drives 6K miles per year total, using about 400 gallons total per year, do you see the irony now?

If you are going to accuse someone else of their “wasteful ways” - you may first want to look no further than your immediate family. Your daughter needs an SUV to drive 1.5 miles to work???” :? What’s wrong with walking or riding a bike?

Oh, and by the way . . . your “former SUV” probably pollutes more just sitting in the parking lot than the Prius does while driving, and guaranteed - your daughter’s 6,ooo mile yearly use will pollute more than Prius Maximus’ 34K mile yearly usage.

My commute is 20 feet from my bed to my home office, but I don’t ridicule someone for driving a Prius of all things.

Do YOU see the irony now?

[cptdenny]

>>If you are going to accuse someone else of their “wasteful ways” - you may first want to look no further than your immediate family. Your daughter needs an SUV to drive 1.5 miles to work???” What’s wrong with walking or riding a bike?<<

I bought the SUV nealry 10 years ago new, I'm not going to be wasteful and get rid of it when it has less than 50K miles on it. Traffic situation would make it suicidal to walk or pedal to work. Besides my daughter is a first responder being a physician, you won't find any economy cars in natural disasters performing rescues until after the 4X4's are done

>>Oh, and by the way . . . your “former SUV” probably pollutes more just sitting in the parking lot than the Prius does while driving, and guaranteed - your daughter’s 6,ooo mile yearly use will pollute more than Prius Maximus’ 34K mile yearly usage<<

Well your creditbilty just got shot with that last statement of anger, go to http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.htm and plug in 1996 Ford Explorer 4 dr AWD 8 cly. and plug in whatever car or vehicle you want.

BTW, my commute is a longer one, about 60 feet 8) Lets tone it down.

[Prius Maximus]

<<I hate to burst your bubble, you have driven over 34K miles in about a year and not saved but wasted 320 gallons of fuel in the process over the average annual mileage of 18K miles per year..... but you can still be wasteful at the same time.>>

I never expected to be chewed out by another Prius owner. Excuse me for having a life that is not totally under my control, I don't live in perfectville. I used to live 12 miles from work, but the jerk boss wouldn't give me a raise or treat his workers like human beings. I got a job offer $20,000 higher than I was making, but it's a 50 mile commute. Hmmm, let me think: 1. no money a-hole boss or 2. more money good boss. What would you have done? If you think I enjoy 100 miles of traffic every day you are crazy, But I have to supply for my family. And I will not take them out of the country where they grew up to move to downtown Chicago just to be close to work. If I am wasting some gas to feed my family, so be it, noone can waste nothing. I guess I could have kept my old car or I could sell my Prius and drive a pickup truck at 10 mpg to avoid the irony. Would that make you happy? I am not at all happy about using all that gas last year, but it would have been much worse without the Prius.

Oh, and when I was a kid, I didn't have my daddy's SUV, I walked 4 miles to work, and took the bus to school or sometimes walked the 7 miles. Why were you driving a gas guzzler in the first place, and why give it to your daughter so she can waste fuel too? What kind of lessons are you teaching her about waste? Don't accuse anybody until after you've taken a good look in the mirror.