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The cost calculator in this ad is badly flawed. I just did two entries, one at 5000 miles a year and one at 25000 miles a year. I entered the fuel at 3.75 a gal for gas and the same price for diesel which is the way it is here on Vancouver Island. Both times the saving were identical at 9224.00 for the gas. This can't be correct.
Gasoline engines in the sixties were lucky to last only 100,000 miles. With proper oil changes in today's gas engines, a 200,000 mile life is very common and a 300,000 mile life is not uncommon.
Many gas pickups in the scrap yard are there for other components wearing out before the engine.
Diesel pickups share these same components. The diesel pickup is not a highway tractor by any stretch of the imagination.
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