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Old 04-30-2008, 10:43 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by JerzyIroc View Post
take two cars that have a 320 mile range on a tank. one has a 13 gallon tank the other an 8 gallon. at 3.50 a gallon it'll cost 45.5 to fill up. at 12000 miles a year you'd fill up 37.5 times a year. that's 1706.25 dollars a year. at 8 gallons it would cost 28 to fill up. at 12000 miles you'd spend 1050 on gas. that's a big difference. especially when a car with 13 gallons getting 320 miles on a tank is almost 25 mpg which isn't bad imagine getting worse gas mileage
that's not what you said. the way you said it you were portraying that filling up more often saves you money, not the better mpg
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