Gas Price .............

@georgeschire   I have to agree with you on the mpg issue.  I, too, have never considered fuel consumption, when purchasing a car.  It is part of the 'fixed' cost of driving something you like, rather than something that is focused on what it costs to 'feed' the beast.  It fits in with my philosophy of buy what you love and enjoy it.  Life is too short and unpredictable to do otherwise.

Today I filled up at $5.69 per gallon for premium in Chicago suburbs. I believe this is the highest I have ever paid for premium gas in Chicago area. Premium gas, the sacrifice I must make for the cars I like to drive.

I was sidelined 4 days with a sprained foot (it's almost better) and gas blew up to $4.29.9!

@ed-glorius Ed, glad to hear it's almost better.

I do not worry about gas prices, as last year, I purchased a 2016 Tesla Model S, that came with free life time charging at Tesla superchargers.  I travel anywhere from 100 to 200 miles a day, so when the price of gas was $2.40 a gallon, I figured I save about $800 a month, and the way I figure that is we drive the Tesla everywhere and my wife's Yukon XL Denali is only used for long trips and for her to go back and forth to work which is only a mile away.  So I fill her truck up once a month.  My Challenger is only driven occasionally now so I keep the miles off of it, since there were only 102 of them made worldwide in the color and configuration, so I might put gas in it every 2 months.  I got lucking picking up the Tesla as it only had 59k miles for a 10 year old car.  And the only reason I bought it was the free charging, otherwise I would have bought a Hybrid.

@sizedoesmatter +1

George, I did buy a car for the mpg. 1980 I was driving a '72 Plymouth Fury Sport Suburban

getting 11 to 14 mpg and in one weekend I filled the tank 3 times. I figured if I could find a new car that got better than 30 mpg and cost less than $3,000 and I could fit in [6' 2" 245 lbs] it would pay for it self in 3 years. No American car made the list and I tried 4 Japanese cars and did not fit or they cost over $3000 until I tried out a Plymouth Champ

I fit and so I bought it totally stripped down, $27?? and got me 43 mpg.  Forward 3 years and 97,000 miles on it with the original tires on the rear[I did not rotate them] bought one set of front tires, put one set front brake pads on, rear original still good, 1 set of plugs & points,  oil & filter every 5,000 miles, never saw a mechanic just me. A woman in CVS parking lot ripped the left front fender half off, Her insurance company paid me $700 for it. I straightened it and put straps on with screws and promptly sold it for $1700 in '83.

700 + 1700 = 2400 

2750 - 2400 = $350 depreciation plus maintenance for 3 years and 97000 miles at the time meant a lot to me, allowed me to save and buy pay for a new left over ['83]

I thought it was well worth it, never had another car that could come close to doing that..

PS: 2 years later I destroyed my right wrist when I went down at above 85 MPH. Oh that hurt, 4 surgeries on it. Yes, I did own & ride 4 bikes after that the last being a 2006 and quit riding in 2010 [started 1973, owned 9 bikes total [plus the wife's 2] only dropped the one]. Did not ride 1978 to 1982, and 1985 to 1993.