Does it seem logical to buy car that is more fuel efficient?

Question

Let's say gas costs $4/gal and you have to pay $70/week every week to fill it up. That totals to $3640/year. Do you go out and buy a car roughly $30,000 in the hope that you only have to pay $70 bi-weekly?

Answer 1

In the long run you will be saving money, and if you need a new car anywaw its worth it.

Answer 2

let me start off by saying Hydrogen is a great option for the concept of free energy.     I built my first hydrogen cell about 5 years ago. Have converted over 50 vehicles in the last 10 years (gydrogen and EV) and now currently run 2 trucks (and another EV), my home hot water heater, home stove and home generator on hydrogen for free with caught rain water and the help of a $10 solar panel.  I offer a step by step DIY guide to walk anyone interested threw the process. You can find it at www agua-luna com or you can email me.

There are basically 3 safe ways to make and use it... chemically, electrically and molecularly, the first 2 being easier so I'll only discuss them here. The fallowing steps were taking directly out of a DIY guide I offer to those who would like to run their vehicles or home on hydrogen safely. The entire guide is available at www agua-luna com

    On demand h2 generators are a bit different from the Hollywood versions like seen Chain Reaction with Keanu Reeves, that tend to explode violently every time a film is being made. However when used in an on-demand system there is no storage of hydrogen and oxygen in its gas form, only liquid (water) and is only transformed into gas “on-demand” in small cylinder size amounts. It’s actually safer then gasoline as it doesn’t evaporate, creating explosive fumes in the tank like gas. the following were actually taken out of my $5 guide available at www agua-luna com

    Chemically

    1. You’ll need a 6inch x 1ft schedule 40 pvc pipe. With pvc cement glue a cap on the bottom and use a s***w on cap for the top. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, s******g in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your engine (carburetor or fuel injections).

    2. Now crunch up a couple aluminum cans (beer cans, soda cans etc) and drop them into the pvc pipe, along with a couple cups of lye (Red Devil drain opener has lye in it, some Clorox and Drano’s do to).

    3. Then simply add water, s***w on the top and wait a few minutes.

    What happens in simplicity is that aluminum and lye don’t really get along so they battle, and as always the innocent civilians (water H2O) that the most casualties, by giving up its hydrogen and oxygen. This then builds up in the void of the pipe and is ready to be vented into your engine, by opening the valve. You may need to start your engine on gas then switch it off after the hydrogen starts burning.

    Electrical is a bit easier then Chemically.

    1. Simply take a small solar panel 1.5 amps is what I use ($9 at harborfreight.com), connect the 2 wires from the panel +- to 2 conductors (carbon cores of batteries work well, just be careful removing it from the jacket), but any conductive material will work ie. Copper, aluminum, steel, etc.

    2. Drop the wires into a water tank (I use 55gal drums), make sure they don’t touch each other.

    3. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, s******g in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your engine (carburetor or fuel injections).

    4. Then simply add water, s***w on the top cap and wait.

    After a few hours tiny bubbles will form and rise off one conductor (that’s hydrogen) and even smaller bubbles that just looks like foam will rise off the other (oxygen). I don’t remember which likes the positive and which likes the neg hydrogen or the oxygen.

    The third method is more complicated and is what I use for my vehicles. It’s just a modified Joe’s Cell, there’s a step by step DIY guide available to walk you threw the process here www agua-luna com

It also covers the other 2 methods described in more detail.

www agua-luna com

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at  www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

Dan Martin

Alterative Energy / Sustainable Consultant, Living 100% on Alternative & Author of How One Simple Yet Incredibly Powerful Resource Is Transforming The Lives of Regular People From All Over The World... Instantly Elevating Their Income & Lowering Their Debt, While Saving The Environment by Using FREE ENERGY... All With Just One Click of A Mouse...For more info Visit:  

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Answer 3

well...obviously it will take a while to even out..but think about it...if you buy a truck for 25,000 and it gets 13 miles per gallon. Which would u rather have?

Answer 4

If you can afford it (payments) and travel far on a regular basis, very worth it.

If you don't drive too far, don't bother.

Answer 5

Yes but not a hybrid.  Hybrids are too expensive to break even.

Answer 6

Yes it seems logical. Because all cars cost about that much, not just the fuel efficient ones. Obviously not all cars cost exactly 30K, but the fuel efficient one does not cost 30K MORE than an equivalent one that is not fuel efficient. So maybe you pay 3K more for the fuel efficient model, and it saves you 10% on your fuel bill. That can easily add up to more savings in fuel cost over the life of the car than the extra money you paid for the car. This is especially true since the cost of fuel can go up after you buy the car, but the cost of the car never changes after you buy it.

Answer 7

You do hope that gas won't keep going up, but I believe that it's going to reach into the mid $5.00.  At this rate people will start to make some financial decisions on the cars they purchase; thankfully this will also help the environment.  It will be very hard to weane people away from the gas guzzling trucks.

Answer 8

there are a lot of reasonably priced cars that are fuel efficient. You do not have to get a luxury or fancy car.

ALso get the size of car that you need - don't go bigger because it is better and fancier.

Answer 9

The PRICE of a car can depend on MANY variations. First and foremost, will the selected model car SERVE the purpose for which you want it to do? If it gets GREAT milage but you are in the car pooling business and only 3 people plus yourself can fit in the car, maybe it ain't so hot.

In the grand scheme of things we should all be making decisions to save on the burning of fossile fuels to run our cars, regardless of the price of the car. The next thing we need to do is consider finding ways to get around with public transportation. These two items would go a fair distance towards reducing our dependence on foriegn oil.

Answer 10

today, right here, gas is $4.50

two years ago it was $2.25

if the price of gas doubles every 2 years, then after 10 years it'll be over $100 a gallon.

if that's the case, during the 10th year, you'll pay $90,000.

which is 3 cars.

and that doesn't even count all the gas you'll have bought in the other 9 years.

it would seem to be a REALLY GOOD IDEA.

now i'll be more than happy to grant that it's unlikely that the price of gas will double every 2 years.

but if you think it's not going up. you're dreaming.

add to that the fact that many of us use more than 2-3 gallons a day.