I think most of us on this forum are better off financially than the average person. $6/gallon gas is a much bigger pinch for the person making $40k a year trying to raise a family.

 

however the best/top selling vehicles are more fuel efficient (Camry/Rav4)

 

There is way more to consider than just fuel costs. Cars prices today are essentially double what they used to be before the pandemic, and they are a lot more expensive to service and repair. A lot of people will want to hold on to their car for a longer time, so reliability and long term repairability becomes a big factor when deciding on a car choice.

 

Stellantis C suite hoping they more customers like yourself.....or else they have a whole lotta hemis they got to clear out lol.

You have a point though with how full size bof mobiles fly off the lots. A lot of rural places, families turn to the GMT or Ford equivalent, or full size pickup as their family hauler instead of a minivan, and those pump prices are brutal but they stretch that budget. Would they do better with a fuel sipping sedan or cuv or minivans, sure, but a variety of reasons its full BOF with one person running around.

 

Steve, see, the thing is.....you can't tell me that. You think you can and you don't mean anything by it, but you can't. You don't know what I want and how much I'd spend and frankly don't have the right to tell me that if gas stays at $5 I wouldn't care. That's MY preogative. If I want to spend $1500 a month for gas for 8 cylinder cars we that's my business. 4 years ago when it spiked I never said I was getting rid of them lol.

When boat fuel was $7-8 I still haven't seen a busier summer....

And again, this is temporary.. I'll stand corrected if I'm wrong like I always do, but gas will come back down.

 

Well it’s all just talk until we actually do it, right? So put things into context. Families are having to make actual hard choices because costs are going up across the board on their non-discretionary spend. Necessary, unavoidable costs. And again, they are going up for entirely preventable reasons that tie directly to a choice to put us in this position. We should not be celebrating that, or dismissing it. We absolutely should care about cost and efficiency, because the current challenges most directly and most aggressively impact those whose pocketbook is least able to withstand the shock.

 

So you can talk politics but I can't bring up valid points without getting censored?

 

That's not politics. It's empathy for families struggling with budgets.

 

Yeah as it was during the years 2021-2024 when gas shot up to ludicrous level. You think families didn't struggle then?

You sang a VERY DIFFERENT TUNE then, ALOT of you did.

 

lol politics are fine I see.

A certain human being who made this decision will end up being right about prices falling once this is over, and the world will be a safer place. Watch.

 

The one percenters aren’t hurt when the gas prices and other necessities prices go up which is why luxury goods are still in demand like the Escalade. The others that live paycheck to paycheck are the ones most affected. Not saying some of those living like that isn’t because of their own doing (I have deadbeat family members) but they will struggle.

 

Agreed

Also agreed

See this:

This is the truth, it’s one thing to say you would do a thing and another thing to do it. When you go out and buy an Escalade V and drive it 1,200 miles a month with that FE and gas at $6+ a gallon we’ll talk. Until then it’s just talk and I’m betting you wouldn’t be as happy to do that if you were actually doing it as you think you would be. You could go buy an Escalade V tomorrow but you don’t have one, why? Because you don’t want to spend the money.

Nobody likes paying more for something than they have to for no good reason. **No Politics**

I’m actually fueling two cars that are each being driven 1,000+ miles a month. I’d like a GLS450 to replace the PHEV Pacifica but fuel costs absolutely weigh into the decision to do that or not, even with all my income. As much as I love my car which gets way better economy than that it costs over $100 to fill it up now and that’s just going to get worse and I don’t like that at all. Will that impact my decision of what I get to replace the S580? Absolutely.

**No Politics**

 

 

Glad I have my Prius

 

To be fair you're singing a different tune then than you are now too.

Just to elaborate on what I said earlier, I was waiting at the DMV and posting on my phone.

People's individual choices depend on their individual situations. If your situation were different your choices would be different is my point. If you told 30 year old me with no kids that I would be making the amount of money I make now and would be concerned about what a vehicle I want costs and what it costs to fuel it I would have said no way, I love cars and I would have so much money available I would just buy whatever I want and pay whatever I want to fuel those cars. 30 year old me however is not 44 year old me. 44 year old me has kids, has a bigger house with much higher expenses, my work circumstances are different, my use case for a vehicle is different. I just got back from a $20k vacation that would have cost 30 year old me $5k. My decision criteria is totally different than it was then. So yeah, I make twice as much money but I actually am more cognizant of what I spend money on than I was then...because my expenses are much higher and what I have to be responsible for beyond my own enjoyment is much greater. If you were in a similar position to where I am your willingness to spend on things like gas for gas guzzling vehicles would be different than it is for you now.

You own older depreciated vehicles that are paid for, you have no kids, high income and you don't commute or drive for work...you drive very little. For you the cost of fuel is nothing. However, if you paid $2,500 a month in car payments, drove each car 1,000+ miles a month, had two kids with tuitions to pay for, had to prepare to send them to college in 7 years, wanted to take great family vacations while they are still young, had a mother to financially support to an increasing degree...you would be more like me and I bet you would think about the cost of fuel more.

There is no reason to expect that gas prices will come down in the near term, and every reason to expect that they will continue to rise. Once they get to a certain point people absolutely will start making vehicle choices because of those gas prices.