In planning a Thanksgiving vacation, you want to rent a car for a week and travel the Pacific Highway from San Francisco to San Diego. You want to return to San Francisco via Las Vegas, Death Valley, and Yosemite National Park. This trip covers approximately 1,500 miles. You plan to return the car with a full tank of gasoline. You are considering two options advertised by Hertz:
Toyota Camry, 33 mpg highway, costs $465.59 plus taxes and fees totaling $553.28.
Toyota Prius Hybrid, 48 mpg highway, costs $634.49 plus taxes and fees totaling $804.61.
In both cases, you must purchase gasoline, which costs approximately $3.80 per gallon in California.