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Date:         Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:05:57 -0800
Reply-To:     "Chris S." <mrpolak@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Chris S." <mrpolak@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: New VW Rotten Unvieled // TDI?
Comments: To: rpc <populuxe59@YAHOO.COM>
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>>Chris S, and other TDI, or NA Diesel aficionados;

My New Beetle TDI gets 45 MPG in Atlanta traffic. A gas powered New Beetle would muster 25 MPG. That's a difference of 80% over gas.

Diesel fuel currently costs $3.39 a gallon while regular is $2.89. That's a difference of 17%.

This means I still save over 60% of fuel costs over a gas Beetle in the winter when Diesel is more expensive. In the summer my savings are more substantial because the cost of diesel drops to below that of gas. I drive 55 miles a day, so it adds up.

My Westy averages 18MPG. If I could get 25 out of a diesel under same conditions I'd still come out ahead.

What it also means is that if the entire country drove clean diesels we could fart in AlQuida's, Saudi's, Iran's and Iraq's general direction.

Chris S.

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