On a new truck the diesel engine adds $10,000 to the price tag alone.
If the diesel got 12 mpg towing and the gasser got 6 mpg, with todays $.80 to $1 difference in fuel prices it would take over 100,000 miles of driving just to save enough in fuel cost to pay of the diesel engine.
Add in DEF fluid, higher cost to maintain and any repair bills and one could be looking at hundreds of thousands of miles to justify the cost of a new model diesel pickup.
I love my old noisy, smelly, rattling 12 valve Cummins, it's simple and easy to work on, I did a full rebuild two years ago that cost less than the injectors in my friends common rail.
I plan to keep this truck till they take my licenses away.
If I were driving 40-50,000 miles per years and had to replace my present truck I'd look at another diesel, but for my under 20,000 miles per year I'd get one with a gas engine.
We do have smaller gas powered pickups for daily use, the diesel dually doesn't see much recreational use, it was bought and built to work.
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