> -----Original Message-----
> From: David K Yeung [mailto:dkyeung@juno.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 3:46 PM
> To: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Protest Oil Companies
>
>
> and what if we had to pay closer to the prices in Europe....$1.50+ per
> LITER !
It would cost me BIG BUCKS to put gas in the Sub... But since I've already
got the thing, I just pay it. At that point, I might buy my wife a smaller
car, when she didn't need the suburban....
Keep in mind, I don't know of any other vehicle (ok, now that the Excursions
are coming out, there's one other vehicle) that can haul, my wife and I, 3
kids (soon to be 4), a dog, luggage and tow a trailer. Can a minivan do
that? Sure without the dog or luggage, Can a station wagon do that? luggage
and dog, sure, but can't fit enough passengers. I could put a rack on the
top, but then that minivan would get 10mpg (worse than the suburban towing a
trailer). Also, what happens when my kids want to take friends with them
somewhere, how does my wife or I take 2 cars?
Also, the truth of the matter is, Suburban's don't get much worse mileage
than a minivan. My Mazda MPV (which I really likes). Got about 17mpg in the
city and 22 on the highway. With the Sub, I get 17 on the highway and 15 in
the city. Towing a 36 square foot frontal area trailer, the sub get's 10mpg,
the minivan... the exact same 10 mpg. So, I'm not burning that much more gas
in the Suburban than I do in a minivan. So what the heck, why not be
comfortable (the sub is a much more comfortable highway car than a minivan).
>
> but a one day boycott of your local stop-n-rob will in no way
> affect the
> OPEC oil barrons. the low price of oil does hurt the US oil industry,
> causing it to shut down more and more oil wells thereby increasing our
> dependency and vulnerability to OPEC oil. I wouldn't like
> paying $2/gal
> but if it helps keep us a little more independent in the long
> run, it'll
> be worth it IMHO.
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