I recall talking about that with some class mates today about how most sports cars use less fuel than other cars, considering its a 11 year old truck thats not actually to bad in my opinion.
Won't the prices get jacked up when people start buying a lot again?
yes, i wasn't meaning to "down" your truck. the ford trucks are among the best most reliable on the road since about the mid/late 90's. before that timeframe, i think gm had ford licked hands down.
part of how some sports cars will actually use less, is simply the basics of producing power. in order to produce power, you need to use...or burn...the fuel/air mixture that's available to the engine more efficiently. that's a lot of how these guys are getting so much power out of such small engines, and doing so good with the fuel mileage. of course the technology, and excellent powertrain management systems help that along too.
yes, they prices will rise if/when people started buying again. but think of this......gas was still below $1/gallon in the so-called oil crisis in 79. back in 06 it was still below $2/gallon. futures traders hadn't had much effect by then. in 79, supply/demand was running the show. it went up. we had rationing. we sat in 1/4 mile long lines. we used odd/even license plate system. here in nj, the attendant would look at your gauge, and if you had a half tank or more, they wouldn't give you any gas.
that "shortage" was artificial. i forget exactly who pissed off whom.......but it was basically bs, and we all paid for it.
it's like i keep saying......right now, if a gnat lands on an iranian colonol's nose, and a civilian slaps it off, the traders will panic, and buy buy buy. that'll drive the prices up. we will pay for it nearly immediately.
nothing has changed, concerning who/where we get our oil from. it should. we have enough here to last a lifetime or two at least. we should be putting our people to work, getting that stuff outta the ground, refined, delivered, and sold. that alone would create a ton of jobs. it should bring the prices down(if it weren't for those futures traders and lack of oversight). that in turn would bring the prices of nearly everything else down. this would all go a loooonnnngggg way towards putting the economy back on the fast track to recovery.
here's another thought. diesel is(or it used to be) a byproduct of refining gasoline. it used to be waste. diesel engines weren't originally designed or built to run on diesel fuel. google that one too. you may be surprised.
since diesel fuel is a byproduct of the refining process, that is why it used to be about half the price of gas. yet now in most places, it's more expensive. why would that be? also....diesel=kerosene=home heating oil=jet a, and a few other things. the biggest difference(although i may be wrong here) is how much it's cleaned up.
