(originally posted to Edmunds.com discussion board on 2005.01.14)<\/p>\n
Let’s say gas is more like $2.50\/gallon, which it now is in some markets, and you have a longer commute, say, you put 15,00 miles\/year on the car. (originally posted to Edmunds.com discussion board on 2005.01.14) Let’s say gas is more like $2.50\/gallon, which it now is in some markets, and you have a longer commute, say, you put 15,00 miles\/year on the car. 20 mpg = 750 gal = $1875\/year in gas cost 28 mpg = 535.7 gal = $1340\/year in … Continue reading Hybrid Highlander $avings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n20 mpg = 750 gal = $1875\/year in gas cost
\n28 mpg = 535.7 gal = $1340\/year in gas cost
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\n$535\/year savings. In seven years, that’s $3745. If there’s still a tax break when you buy it new (I’m not sure what the status of that is these days), then you’re paying virtually nothing<\/span> to get all of the aformentioned benefits plus, of course, reduced environmental impact.
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\nObviously, if you live somewhere where gas is much cheaper or put less miles on your vehicle, it makes less finiancial sense, at least purely on gas price. But for some poeple, the math already pretty much works out right now<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"