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[NoTrespassing]

Have fun feeding those pickup trucks. Oil hits $75 for the first time since 2014 and gasoline will follow if something doesn't change.

Oil climbs on Libya force majeure, Canada outage

Kevin

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Thanks.

Just filled up today.

Seemed ok to me.

 

[RyeThomas]

The problem for me is having 2 vehicles doesn’t add up. In my area every year not only do you have to pay for plates (tags) inspection, emission, insurance, any vehicle payment and maintenance, they also hit you with a wonderful thing called personal property tax. Even though you paid sales tax every year you pay an outrageous personal property tax.

I daily drive a Ram 3500 Crew cab long bed Dually. When I need to tow (and I do use it quite frequently) I have the capability to drag most anything around. Add to that fact vehicles now a day are running 100’s of thousands of miles, for my situation it makes no sense to have 2 vehicles. Why pay for a truck to sit in the drive instead of drive it?

People also trade there vehicles in far too often, stay in debt with a car payment and then complain about fuel prices. Don’t get me wrong, I hate high fuel prices, but when your vehicle is paid for fuel prices are a drop in the bucket. I’ll be angry at the pump paying another .30-40 cents but without (what’s an average payment these days $400-500?) a payment it will hurt a lot less.

 

[deerefan]

I drive a 2013 Tundra 160 miles round trip daily. Get 17-18 mpg. 2wd 5.7l. Great truck, still drives like new, no squeaks or rattles. Smallest I would go to is a Tacoma. Prefer a little size as some people drive dangerously here on I12 in Louisiana.

 

[Tomtint]

Diesel out here was 3.19 / gallon this am. I drove 300 miles yesterday in the Sprinter van.. fortunately it gets 24-25 mpg.. I'm expecting to see fuel in the 3.50-3.75 / gallon by this time next year. As the stock market looks for places to pump valuations..so the hedge funds can cover.. they almost always pump up crude.. for no other reason than it's easy for them to pump and dump it when the next shiny thing comes along.

 

[coobie]

Have fun feeding those pickup trucks. Oil hits $75 for the first time since 2014 and gasoline will follow if something doesn't change.

Oil climbs on Libya force majeure, Canada outage

Kevin

I will,HE,HE ...

 

[John Fitzgerald]

If you need a pickup truck anyway, and do the math, it is not cost effective to have a second (reliable) commuting vehicle, unless the commute is unusually long, like 50 miles.

 

[4570Man]

If I drove more than I do I’d have another vehicle. It might not make sense but I’d sure feel better. I really hate giving the gas station money. But currently my fuel bill is about $50 a week and less in the winter. Maybe enough to cover insurance in another vehicle if it cut the fuel to zero.

 

[wmonroe]

Add me to the list that commutes in a 3500 single wheel truck. A 1500 would barely pull my trailer with a light to moderate load and would be out when fully loaded. As already has been mentioned a second commuter vehicle doesn’t work out on paper and I also feel much better dropping off/picking up my kids in my truck than a little car. The big question to me is why do people care what someone else commutes in? I pay my own fuel bill so why the interest. A friend of mine at work has a 3/4 ton truck with a small lift that never hauls or rows anything. He obviously pays the gas and monthly payments but he works hard and enjoys it, so what is really wrong with that?

 

[two_bit_score]

Add me to the list that commutes in a 3500 single wheel truck. A 1500 would barely pull my trailer with a light to moderate load and would be out when fully loaded. As already has been mentioned a second commuter vehicle doesn’t work out on paper and I also feel much better dropping off/picking up my kids in my truck than a little car. The big question to me is why do people care what someone else commutes in? I pay my own fuel bill so why the interest. A friend of mine at work has a 3/4 ton truck with a small lift that never hauls or rows anything. He obviously pays the gas and monthly payments but he works hard and enjoys it, so what is really wrong with that?

Nothing. They are just jealous.