Jeff Bower
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Paul, same thing here in IA with the diesel..doesn't make sense.
My wife's SUV is has more room, is much more comfortable and is much quieter on the highway, but we have driven my focus wagon almost 4000 miles this summer on 3 rather long trips and several short ones. It gets 28-32MPG and her SUV only gets 14-20. I used to loose sleep over high gas prices, but then we decided we could spend less on other things on the trip (bring our own food and drink, go to free attractions, camp or stay with friends and family rather than hotels, etc.) and the worries were gone. My family takes 20-200 miles drives/day trips most weekends. If we didn't I would go crazy I think. Des Moines isn't a large city at all, but getting out to small towns and seeing the countryside puts a smile on our faces every time plus our daughter sees and does things most living here don't. Gas prices have been high for awhile now and I think I have just embraced it for a fact of life and moved on.
My wife's SUV is has more room, is much more comfortable and is much quieter on the highway, but we have driven my focus wagon almost 4000 miles this summer on 3 rather long trips and several short ones. It gets 28-32MPG and her SUV only gets 14-20. I used to loose sleep over high gas prices, but then we decided we could spend less on other things on the trip (bring our own food and drink, go to free attractions, camp or stay with friends and family rather than hotels, etc.) and the worries were gone. My family takes 20-200 miles drives/day trips most weekends. If we didn't I would go crazy I think. Des Moines isn't a large city at all, but getting out to small towns and seeing the countryside puts a smile on our faces every time plus our daughter sees and does things most living here don't. Gas prices have been high for awhile now and I think I have just embraced it for a fact of life and moved on.