How do you figure 13,700? I just took 660,000 and divided by 25 (his free additional mileage and I get 26,400 miles. Am I looking at the problem wrong?
Oops, never mind. You are correct. I see what I did was wrong. He saved about 26400 - 12692 = 13708 gallons.
At even 4 dollars a gallon that is just over 50k. So he is either paying the highest priced gas in the country or his savings are inflated.
Go back and look at the original post...
660,000 / 52 =12,692
660,000/25 = 26,400
He burned gas driving his 660,000 miles.... he just didn’t burn as MUCH driving a car that got 52 mpg as he did one that got 25.
The ACTUAL difference between the two, is how much gas and thus money he saved:
26,400 - 12,692 = 13,708.... I rounded it down to 13700 because I said ABOUT 13,700
He used 13,708 gallons LESS using his prius getting 52mpg vs another vehicle getting 25 MPG.
As such for him to have SAVED $82,500, he would have to have speng 82,500 on 13,708 gallons of gas... and thats complete BS...
$82,500/13,708 = $6.01 So, to “SAVE” 82,500 driving 660,000 miles in a car that got 52mpg vs a car that got 25mpg you would have to be spending on average $6.01 per gallon.. .and that’s BS!
The average price of gas over the last 20 years is actually below $3... in 2000 it was 1.51 a gallon for example and for a brief period it went up to $3.99 or so.. but for the majority of the last 20 years its been under $3 a gallon so even if I give you $3 a gallon as the average price, this man is OVERCLAIMING his savings by more than double.
HIS MATH IS CRAP!