Elio And Gas Prices

[ross]

If Oil goes below $70.00 a barrel they will start to shut down the shale oil fields in western ND. It costs them $70.00 a barrel to pull it out of the ground. Then again they may start dumping the oil and start capturing the natural gas their burning off right now!

Oil prices cannot remain low in the long run, oil is a finite resource and we are fast approaching "peak oil production" at that point prices will rise and continue to rise as we see India and China continue to industrialize.

 

[Norahsbed]

Oil prices cannot remain low in the long run, oil is a finite resource and we are fast approaching "peak oil production" at that point prices will rise and continue to rise as we see India and China continue to industrialize.

Most states and Feds want to raise the gas tax, so even if gas were to stay down for awhile, we're gonna get hit with an increase anyway! All the more reason to get the Elios on the road!

 

[ozarkbugg]

Instead of driving what you are currently driving? I would have saved $88.00

 

[JEBar]

Instead of driving what you are currently driving? I would have saved $88.00

just curious, what MPG are you basing that on .... I've had some exchanges with folks basing on 84 mpg but are actually doing city instead of highway driving

Jim

 

[ozarkbugg]

based on 80mpg. I did a lot of hiway driving @17mpg.

 

[Bert]

My 96 Neon gets around 42 mpg on the highway, and I drive a lot of highway. o_O
Just back and forth to work, I'll save half of what I spend now, about 40 dollars a week.
I'm much more looking forward to the "cool" factor, nothing says "nerd" more than a green Dodge Neon. C'mon Elio!!!

 

[wayne kemp]

All in town......At 50 mpg (and $3.00 per gallon) for the Elio I would have saved $20.00.
I drive very little. I get 11.5 mpg on my Ford truck.

 

[Gas-Powered Awesome]

Based on my current MPG of about 62 average in mixed driving over a 42-mile commute, I probably won't save much.

But I'll look way cooler doing it in an Elio than I do in my ridiculous-looking Honda Insight...


Now, if you want to talk about vs. my 18 MPG RX-8 or 13 MPG truck, yeah, did the math on that and that's why I'm All-In in the first place. $30+/week for the RX-8, $40+ for the truck.

 

[NSTG8R]

Well, 24mpg with the Subaru. 420 miles per week @ $3.50 a gallon = $61.25 per week in gas.
With the Elio, I'd spend $17.50 in gas per week, so I'd have saved $43.75 per week. Times 52 weeks per year = $2275 in gas savings. Which is just about perfect for an All-Inclusive down at Rivera Maya...per year.

 

[JEBar]

being retired, there are plenty of days where we don't leave home .... about once a month we make a 500 mile round trip to the mountains where we visit with my mother who is in a retirement home .... in our 2000 Buick Park Avenue which gets 31 mpg that takes about 16 gallons of gasoline or about $50 .... our Chevy truck which gets 20.1 mpg it takes about 24 gallons or about $73 .... at 75 mpg an Elio would take about 7 gallons or about $20 .... back when I was driving just over 70 miles one way to work, it would have been different but with the way things are today, I doubt an Elio would ever save us enough money to pay for itself

Jim