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Originally Posted by LoganSnake
So how much money on average do you think you'll be saving after you take into account all the costs of the upgrades and the time it takes for you to get your money back in saved money?
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From and economic perspective, in the short-run, you'd lose a TREMENDOUS amount of capital. The cost for engine upgrades, ingredients, and building a still would run around $30 to $40 thousand.
In the long-run, the costs will, of course, even out. However, we're talking the real long-run here.
Say you spend $20 a week on gasoline. Simple math tells us that it would take about 1500 weeks (or around 29 years) for you to
break even . After that, assuming that inflation of food products has not surpassed the inflation of gasoline (who knows?), then you may - may - save yourself about $2 or $3 a week on gas. And that's just a rough guess (there might be a equally devastating hurricane in 2030 that destroys all the world's sugar crops, thus making table sugar priced at $15 a pound...).
In the end, I don't think it's really worth it, do you? Plus your car would never, never pass inspection
