A lady I know recently replaced her '00 Sedan Deville with a brand new '05 model. Ordinarily this wouldn't bother me except that for the past five years she has been complaining without end about the ever rising gas prices. So I did a little computation and came up with the following guesstimates:
approx price of '05 Sedan Deville $50475 locally, price of Buick model LeSabre (for comparison) $27795...difference $22680. Figuring the cost of gas (she uses premium) will rise to at least $3.00 per gallon, this amount of money will buy 7,560 U.S. gallons.Now, let's assume she drives 15,000 miles per year and give the Buick an average of 24.5 mpg combined city-highway driving. That means the Buick will use 612.24 gallons per year to travel 15,000 miles. In summary, this means that the additional cost of the Cadillac would purchase enough gasoline to allow the Buick to drive for 12.34 YEARS!!!!! Understand...I don't care how she spends her money, but as I see it there would be no hardship on her whatsoever if she were to buy the Buick instead. It's almost as nice, almost as comfortable (in fact I would be hard pressed to measure the differences)and would transport the same number of passengers and virtually the same amount of cargo. Granted this is but one example and others in a different situation may disagree, but I say if she chooses to drive the Cadillac she has no right to complain about gas prices. Agree/Disagree?