I filled up my car yesterday and was pleasantly surprised at the prices, $3.65 per gallon for regular and $3.85 for 93 octane. That's the best I've seen in a while.
Like everyone else we have changed our driving habits to save money. I'm driving my 1995 Ford Taurus with 213k miles on it, it still gets 25-30 mpg. Debby is driving the 1998 GMC 4wd Suburban with about 185k miles and it gets 15 - 20 mpg. The Suburban has a 40 gallon tank so at $4/gallon it costs $160 to fill up. Ouch.
The Suburban has been a great vehicle and we'll hopefully keep it awhile. It's really nice to have a large heavy safe comfortable 4wd vehicle for trips and it's an excellent tow vehicle. We can also get a lot of stuff and people in it, sometimes we can drive it instead of two vehicles. The Suburban has been handy to have on the farm.
At the moment it makes financial sense for us to just keep using these two vehicles, with no car payments. If the price of gas goes up or if we drive more then it would make sense to get a replacement vehicle with better fuel economy.
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