"""VW 1L does not have leather seats, A/C or cruise,
but if we
transplanted 10%
of our fat-assed spoiled luxo-barge-driving
Segway-buying
3000-calorie-a-day-eating left-lane-hogging
mine-is-bigger-wanting
American
behinds from SUVs and other gas-guzzlers, which
usually transport only""

Ditto!!
Ha Ha LOL!!!

Phil

By the way, the above is not a run-on sentence.
--- Chris Stann <ChrisS@INFORMS.COM> wrote:
> A very simplified comparison:
>
>         SUV:  $30000, MPG:  15.
>         New Daewoo:  $14000, MPG: 30.
>         VW 1L:  $20000, MPG: 200.
>
> at 12000 miles a year:
>
>         SUV:  $1200 in gas.
>         Daewoo:  $600 in gas.
>         VW 1L:  $87 in diesel.
>
> 5 year gas cost + cost of car:
>
>         SUV:  $36000
>         Daewoo: $17000
>         VW 1L: $20435
>
> I would venture to say that VW 1L us much cheaper to
> maintain because of its
> simple construction, saving even more over SUV and
> Daewoo.
>
> VW 1L does not have leather seats, A/C or cruise,
> but if we transplanted 10%
> of our fat-assed spoiled luxo-barge-driving
> Segway-buying
> 3000-calorie-a-day-eating left-lane-hogging
> mine-is-bigger-wanting American
> behinds from SUVs and other gas-guzzlers, which
> usually transport only 1
> person anyway, we'd reduce our foreign oil
> dependency by a significant
> margin while striking a nice balance between all-out
> comfort and substandard
> construction.
>
> By the way, the above is not a run-on sentence.
>
>
>
> Chris.
>
> '85 Westy
> hot tub
> power pop-top
> purple skylight
> Hugh Hefner bath robe and pipe
> HMG 50 Cal mounted in the doorway
> Arnold Schwarzennegger as the personal
driver/bodyguard

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