Change of medium?

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I'm considering a switch from oils to acrylics. Maybe not a complete switch, but like.. an addition?

I enjoy working with oils. I like it for painting people, where tiny, subtle gradations in skin tone require careful blending. I make lots of tiny little corrections, and a long drying time helps with that.

But for the landscapes I've been doing, I get impatient, and that often ends up having a detrimental effect on the work. I get an idea and I want to do it RIGHTNOW rather than wait 2 days for the linseed oil to polymerize and the turpentine to evaporate. So I'm considering switching to acrylics for the landscape stuff, and sticking with oils for portraits and whatnot.

For anyone reading this who has worked with both mediums, or who has particular expertise in one or the other, I have some questions:
1) How do acrylics compare to oils, cost-wise? I know it would be cheaper in terms of thinners and cleanup, but how do the actual paints compare, costwise?
2) How well would they work for the "wet on wet" technique as espoused by PBS instructors? Those guys use oils, but with the stuff they are doing with it, it looks like acrylics would do just as good a job.
3) Can acrylics be made to look like oils? To me, it always seems as if there is a marked difference in technique or something... or maybe acrylics lose vibrancy when they dry? I don't know what it is.
4) Any other suggestions / recommendations / things I should know about?

Related, but not really: I bought some new paints and have been testing them out.
- Winton Sap Green is a great colour for trees and grass and whatnot, but I end up using a LOT of it. Way more than any of the other colours.
- Winton Flesh Tint is pretty awful. It's the colour of ham. Which is a kind of flesh, I suppose, but not the kind I'm trying to paint. Not recommended - a bit of Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Umber and loads of Titanium White looks a lot more natural, and can be tinted with reds for pink bits.
- Winsor & Newton Artist Oil Yellow Ochre is nearly too thick to use. It's physically difficult to squeeze out of the tube, and it's so thick it doesn't want to mix. I don't know if I got a partially-dried-out tube or if they just come that way all the time.
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