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East of Broken Bow | The reason is emissions.
Friend of mine is an auto mechanic (gas engines only) and he says to imagine a triangle with one corner being power, another being MPGs and the third being emissions. He said one is easy, two is kind of doable, but anytime you try to add the third, you pull away from the others. Based on what I've seen, I agree with him.
Diesel is a bit of a different animal because it uses DEF in the equation, but if you start adding the costs of DEF, I don't see that they are cheaper to run per mile than older ones. I have a mid-90s Dodge Cummins that easily gets low to mid 20s when running without a trailer, gets right at 17 MPG pulling a 16 foot bumper hitch livestock trailer and about 14 pulling a 20 foot gooseneck (trailers loaded one way, shorter trips over rolling ground). | |
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