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Gee, I never looked at it like me changing my own oil was saving college girls their dignity - See what you learn from helpful forums like this one!! Don

You got good priorities.

I am not entering the fuel debate. On the Towing and diesel debate I will say this . The current Medium and light duty diesels do not seem to have the reliability and longevity that the Class 7-8 truck engines have. The advertised hp of the transit connect Diesel is 120Hp. The current 2.5 liter engine in my TC has 169 hp. I have done lots of towing . The higher Torque will not make up the 49 less Hp . I will drive a diesel when I find one as I am very interested to see how it drives.

To a certain extent, most of the people in the U.S.A. are consuming some sort of food sourced from a farmer who receives a subsidy. At the grocery store, chicken is @ $0.69 per lb, and eggs are about $0.20 - $0.25 each, retail. That is a subsidized price. What is the real cost of raising chickens & eggs, plus the processing and logistics? It cost more than the $2.50 I paid for the chicken; just to put that chicken on a truck and drive it from the ranch, to the processing facility, to the wholesaler, to the distributor, to my grocery store. But farm subsidies are complex, and a tool used by the federal government to control the pricing and availability of the world food supply. I completely disregard the fact that Foster Farms, Zacky Farms, Tyson Chicken, are all sold in other countries, and at the same price point. I don't want to know how, or why, U.S. chicken is $0.69 per pound in a third world country. None of my business that U.S. chicken & eggs are saturating the market, driving local ranchers out of business, and leveraging those nations' economies. Not being an economist, or even socially conscious for that matter, I just like eating chicken. It's cultural. My people eat a lot of chicken. I never allow my mind to wonder as to why there are so many countries that suddenly experienced bird flu, which decimated their poultry production, and then suddenly those markets' voids are filled by U.S. chicken. No conspiracy theory will fit. I won't lose any sleep at all, if I save a nickel at the pump, and someone in China is starving because they don't get to eat the soybean or corn that is going into my gas tank. I am a typical self absorbed, selfish, fat, ignorant American, who pollutes the air way too much with my pickup truck. My idea of being socially conscious is to give an extra dollar to the girl on the pole who is working her way through college.