I'm from the school of if you need a truck, and use a truck buy a truck. I'm not saying that about you but about the population in general, all these people who bought them and are now complaining about how much it costs them to use them to go anywhere. I had pickups and I used them for work, and didn't complain about the cost of gas, because it was just the price of doing business.

I've thought about the Element to use as a handi-man type vehicle but its size is just too small for me, and I'm not going back into that type of work anymore.