Good idea. This is kinda along the line of what I have been thinking. I know that sticks don't get a whole lot more MPG, but most of the time they do get more from what I have seen. What are the odds of $4 gas helping bring the stick back into style? Finding a good newer used truck round here is hard, and most of the time there will not be a new one on the lot, if you want one you have to order it, if you can even get one then.
Around here the sock'r moms are backing off on the big suv's, it's their husbands that are not. I work about a mile from a big power plant and Aluminum joint that pay realy well. I see people going and coming from these all night long here. Many if not most of these guys have tags from 3 countys over so they drive 30, 40, or more miles one way to work. Seems most of them have Z71's with big tires or four door power strokes, most don't even have a reese hitch on them, so they don't use them to pull a thing. I drive 20 miles to my little water factory here, if I had to drive one of my two farm trucks here I would be hurt'n. I drive a 2000 cavalier with a 4 banger. (It is auto but was not my choice, long story) It gets about 30 mpg and the high cost of gas has not put too big a hurt on my comute to work. I don't drive my trucks around unless there is a reason. The only time I will drive one to work is if I need something between work and home that won't fit in the car. They make fun of me at the co-op because I will stop on the way home and pack the trunk with grass seed or tobacco chemicals. As a group alot of us farmers could do alot more to save gas. I know that alot of farmers are try'n but alot are not. I was at the NH dealer here a while back. A guy was in there getting a fuel line and some other stuff. Got to talking to him, he wished there was a dealer closer to him, he had to drive 60 miles just to get some odds and ends parts. Fit them all under his arm and went out, got in his 4X4 one ton and took off. My car that trip would have been 4 gallons, he used at least 8. At $3 a gallon how long would it take for 4 banger s-10 or ranger to pay for it's self for parts runs like this. Sorry I kina got on a rant there but $4 gas scares me and I don't like $3. If every one would cut back where they can, we would be alot better off.
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