Dean2
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- Jun 17, 2021
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- Near Edmonton
- Ram Year
- 2021 2500
- Engine
- 6.4
The only thing i use a personal pickup for is hunting, fishing, and long distance travel becasue i find a pickup the most comfortable to spend 12 hours in. I put less than 10,000 miles a year on my personal pickup. Gas is less than depreciation and insurance so i agree, mileage isn't one of my considerationsI don't know a single person who bought a pickup because they thought they would get better gas mileage - or even gave MPG much of a thought. And everybody I know owns a pickup. We buy pickups so we can tow our bass boats and RV's that can't be towed with a Prius. We don't buy them so we can lift them and add a bunch of stuff that does nothing to add to towing or hauling ability, and then never take them off the asphalt. Gas could go up to $10 a gallon and it wouldn't change the way I drive.
However, I can tell you for sure that 8 bucks a gallon, like it is in B.C. is changing the number of people that use pickups for daily drivers. When a fill is costing you $250 bucks and you do that twice a week just to drive back and forth to work on dry paved roads that has zero need for a 4x4, you start looking for options.
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