WE DON'T CARE ABOUT GAS MILEAGE

In Texas they say that a photo is worth a thousand words and the photo above tells the whole story. It's a photo of a typical "new car" sticker that you will find on the so called, "heavy duty" or "super duty" pickup trucks. Basically, a heavy duty truck is the chassis for a tow truck, but somehow people got brainwashed into buying them for daily transportation. Now the sticker explains how during the mist of high gasoline prices ($3-$4 per gal) you still see herds of those big jumbo trucks driving around the city looking tough and stylish or maybe they're super duty moms delivering their kids to soccer practice. You see because of this sticker these folks just don't realize that there's such thing as good fuel economy. Sure they hear that economy cars get good mileage, but they don't really think it will save them much money. Besides what's more important a tough, macho image or saving a few pennies. You see these guys have always driven a big heavy duty pickup truck ever since they was in high school. And every time they fork out $50,000 to buy a fancy new pickup they still don't know the gas mileage, because it's not printed on the sales sticker, so they still don't know how much (or little) gas mileage they're getting. All they know is that when gas is $1 per gal gallon it takes $40 to fill up the tank. (many of those big heavy duty trucks come with a big heavy duty gas tank (40 gal), to give the impression of good gas mileage) And when the price goes up to $4 a gallon it takes $160 to fill up the tank. Now don't be feeling sorry for these poor urban cowboys, because they are loaded with plenty of cash (that's how come they could afford the 50 grand to buy the truck in the first place). Now, the only thing I can't figure out is why them darn truck makers don't tell them poor folks about the gas mileage. Oh, never mind. It says it right there in the photo. THEY AIN'T REQUIRED TO. So they don't. I guess it would hurt sales if them macho truck owners would figure out that their pretty truck gets about the same gas mileage as that school bus over yonder. (heavy duty trucks get anywhere from 8 mpg to 14 mpg, but shh, it's supposed to be a secret)

PS: I know these "heavy duty" drivers don't know or don't care about gas mileage, but why is it that they drive with their tailgates down (to try to save gas) and why do they travel from all corners of the city to wait in line at the one gas station that sells gas for 5 cents cheaper. Maybe they do care about gas mileage after all.