Gas prices making anyone reconsider?

dvzzz said:

The curves for gas and diesel are moving in opposite direction, in NC I see small drop in Regular fuel but increases in diesel. Many stations in NC are $5.35 for diesel and $3.89 for Regular and $4.40 for Premium.
... and I am considering cheapest diesel Tahoe only because of the comfortable seats that it offers, my 2018 Yukon and 2020 Tahoe were the most comfortable on 15+ hour trips ever. I also compared seats to Telluride, Atlas, Palisade, Ascent. Only Telluride was somewhat close. Ford Expedition seats were very close to Tahoe but gas mileage on Ford was no comparison to Diesel 3.0.

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ktpinnacle said:

Any idea why that is (fuel prices there diverging)?

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Gas prices may be bad now, but three leading CEOs warn there’s a bigger looming fuel crisis that would be a real nightmare

Over 40% of European cars use diesel fuel, but interrupted trade flows with Russia are sending prices soaring and governments scrambling for alternatives.

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R32driver said:

An article I read yesterday was saying those in the know are predicting diesel to be over $6/gal in most places by summer. Fuel prices always rise in the summer so this seems logical. It’s already $5.50 range lots of places I see locally.

Even with these prices if I were in the market for one of these vehicles today the price of fuel would not sway me one way or the other. As others have said if you can afford to spent $70k or more on a rig you should damn well be able to afford fuel for it

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ktpinnacle said:

Any idea why that is (fuel prices there diverging)?

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Wwes said:

Cool tool, but does it adjust for the higher price of the Diesel engine?
I was 100% sold on the baby duramax until the latest price spike, now I'll stick with the 5.3.
Best all around engine, cheapest operating costs, should go 200k without issue.
3.0 requires wet belt oil pump replacement at 150k, at least $1200 repair.

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