>I have a Jetta and considered the diesel model, which gets significantly higher mileage than their gas-powered models. The reasons I decided against it were:
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>-- Diesel fuel is more expensive and harder to find
>-- Stinky
>-- Noisy
>-- Sluggish
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>"Your mileage may vary." ;-)

That's really not true any more. The diesels today are hard to tell from the gas models. In fact from what I understand, diesels burn cleaner than gas these days. Expensive? If the pump price is not lower than gas, and it usually is, you only fill up half as often. How can that be expensive? True it's a bit harder to find, but it's not like it's rare. Up here it's probably in 35% or so of the service stations. (35% is my guess based on nothing at all).

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>>why not get a diesel? the corolla diesel gets more mpg than a hybrid! well at least over here it does, although i assume that you have the same engines available, the 1.4D4D is the model i think, 58mpg is the official figure.
>>Slán
>>~M
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>>>>>Hey if he can't get gas to $5.00 a gallon by the end of his term at least he can start World War 3.
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>>>>Gas is up around $2.70/gallon here already and it's barely April. The oil companies are gouging SOBs and we just view them as part of the environment.
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>>>Since the link was quite longhish, the message window got really wide and the last line was lost somewhere in the, ahem, far right. And I first misread "view them as part of the government". Which may be as well :).
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>>>>All right, I'll stop complaining. Complaining without trying to make things better is useless. There are some pretty smart people here. What can we constructively do to better the auto fuel situation? I suggest for starters we all make a pledge not to buy any vehicle that doesn't get at least 25 mpg. Trust me, I have owned gas hogs myself and my life is no worse without them.
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>>>I'm looking into gathering enough cash to get me a hybrid next. My old Corolla started getting below 30 mpg.