[Homestead] Gas budget buying plans
paxamicus at earthlink.net
paxamicus at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 6 09:17:43 EDT 2008
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No, that part I get. I meant, what do they propose to do when oil is
$10 a gallon? Or you can't get it and 10,000 people are standing there
with their petrol cans? I guess a one-time rebate at time of purchase
makes sense, I didn't think about them settling up now at purchase.
>>
>> And it made me wonder, too, at how they costed it out and how they
>> plan to make it work.
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> It's quite simple when you read the fine print. Those offers
> typcially run:
> "Based on 18000 miles driving with an average of 30 miles per gallon
> for a
> maximum price per gallon of $3.99" In other words, they are
> offering you a
> $3,000 "rebate". They've been doing that for years.
>
> Even at that, it's fake. All they are doing is selling you a
> $30,000 vehicle
> for $33,000. In other words all that you are doing is borrowing
> that gas
> money from the dealership's acceptance corporation at an outrageous
> interest
> rate.
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