Nope, Jager, it was not $10,000, it was $1,000, and I don't remember what I did with the money. Regardless of whether we should accept $4.00 gas as reasonable, changing over to a vehicle that uses half what the Suburban did results in "real savings". I went on the road for the last few days and I wish I had taken a picture of every Suburban in a front yard with a for sale sign. Where I live, a brand new $40,000 Suburban is usually a third or fourth vehicle in a family, but the older ones are in the hands of real working people and are of no use to them at ten miles per gallon.