Gas Guzzler Love Affair

[Bearo]

Saw this article today and it nearly made me cry...

Some old yank getting £1.70 a gallon at Costco in his new truck which does 12mpg and his old motor did 3mpg and he didn't give two sh*ts.

[Steve_PPP]

Interesting reading.

So fuel prices over ther dropped from roughly $4 per gallon to $3, and in 2010 over half the vehicles sold in the US where SUVs or pickups. Be interesting to see what happens to their manufacturers when fuel rockets back up then - they're miles behind the rest of the world in the economy stakes!

It is crazy tho, it was about $1.90 per gallon when i was there in 2005, and we drove our 3.8 V6 hire car for 2500 miles through six different states.... didn't feel it was expensive at all

I remember it being around $3 when I was there last year.

We drove from Vegas, through Death Valley and Yosemite to end up in San Fransisco. The petrol was absolutely nothing in comparison.

[Bearo]

Heres another interesting article on Toyota Prius and its got some facts i didnt know - 'Diesel vehicles currently account for about 2.6% of the US market, though this is expected to rise to 6.8% by 2015 and 8.1% by 2020, the firm predicts.'

2.6% .. and only 8.1% by 2020?! Surely half the cars on UK road are diesel?!

I guess it puts things into perspective.

I have to admit, I found the lack of Deisel sales quite a shock. But then again, they all love their V8's over there, as they do in places like Austrailia.

As for the Prius, I honestly would rather take "Shanks's Pony"