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Phil Bickel:
This article is about as stupid as stupid gets:
Two things to consider:
Prius sells for $24,000. it averages city hwy about 46-52 mpg depending on driver. I got about 51.
I owned mine for five years and drove 100,000 miles. I used about 1960 gallons of gas in that time at an average cost of $3.22 or approximately $6313. I only did oil changes, air filter changes, tires and cabin filter. My total cost of ownership COO was $32,545 minus my trade in 13,000 or $19,545, or 19.5 cents per mile.
If I'd bought a baby hummer for about $29,000 and drove it for 100,000 miles I would have gotten about 19 mpg average and used about 5216 gallons at $3.22 or $16,947. It would have needed brakes, tires, oil changes, tune-ups, and significant repairs, I'll say an additional $3500 for a total of $49,447 minus a trade in value of about $8,000 or $41,447 ( 41.45 cents per mile )more than double the cost of a Prius and the prius has less that one third the emissions.
Now if I needed a Hummer or 4 Runner to tow my boat, I'd buy one, but I sure as hell wouldn't drive it 20,000 miles a year.
The batteries get recycled into new ones and Toyota will pay $1800 for the set, the money is set aside at the purchase and is about half the cost of the Hybrid upcharge.
Phil Bickel bicbickel@yahoo.com
