The MPG thread
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Just got 25 mpg in the S-10.
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Posted a personal best time Dallas to Chicago and then Chicago to Dallas. Still got 38.5 MPG.
Last year I went a bit slower and got 42 something.
Last year I went a bit slower and got 42 something.
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They fixed the sonic in time for the trip, I take it??
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They did, yes. I had a cracked valve cover, thus causing the vacuum leak.
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Just had a personal best in Babe, 29.92.
Went 227 miles on 7.519 gallons with a spot of AirCon.
Went 227 miles on 7.519 gallons with a spot of AirCon.
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Just got my best smileage of the season, 27.22. Score!
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I'll see your 27 and raise you another 7.tankinbeans wrote:Just got my best smileage of the season, 27.22. Score!
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I'm hurting this winter. Short trips, mostly, and some warm up time the other week. I'm down to 28.2. It has NEVER been that low.tankinbeans wrote:Just got my best smileage of the season, 27.22. Score!
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I've been disappointed by some 17-sumpins and 18-sumpins lately - but I have been getting into more traffic lately and driving harder to get around all the left-lane bandits rather than steady-speed cruising. Then again, this is the least I've spent for fuel on a per-mile basis in a long time!
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The Mazda has been getting in the low 30s for the first 1500+ miles that we've had it.
The Fiesta has been around 30 for the past few tanks. I'm quite happy with the cheaper fuel costs recently - filling up either tank is at most $25 if we have run them to almost empty (which I don't like to do, I usually start thinking about refilling around 1/4 tank left).
The Fiesta has been around 30 for the past few tanks. I'm quite happy with the cheaper fuel costs recently - filling up either tank is at most $25 if we have run them to almost empty (which I don't like to do, I usually start thinking about refilling around 1/4 tank left).
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In that graph the 2008 high is clearly visible, but what's with the trough directly after 2008's peak? I sure as hell don't remember anything like that at the pump or from my heating oil, and I don't remember any news of it either.
From the article:
From the article:
...like a teenager cutting herself to get revenge on her mom. Well, at least this oozing stuff from inside somewhere benefits someone...me.Faced with a seemingly uncontrolled freefall in oil prices, Saudi Arabia returned to the one power it still held: To drive higher-cost producers out of the market. Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi, in a revealing December interview, describes how he bluntly threatened the Venezuelans with punishment if they continued to exceed their production quotas. When they refused, the Saudis carried through by continuing to pump as prices fell.
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Why gasoline is both incredibly cheap and absurdly expensive
Costs are sliding on the back of oil futures tumbling for eight consecutive weeks, the longest drop since 1986. Given that crude oil prices traded as low as $37.75 a barrel on Monday, gasoline should be a lot cheaper.
Since AAA started tracking prices in 2004, retail gasoline has only twice been above $2 a gallon while crude was under $40. Prices at the pump are now almost three times as high as oil on a per-barrel basis, the biggest gap on record.
http://www.autonews.com/article/2015082 ... news-daily
Why gasoline is both incredibly cheap and absurdly expensive
Costs are sliding on the back of oil futures tumbling for eight consecutive weeks, the longest drop since 1986. Given that crude oil prices traded as low as $37.75 a barrel on Monday, gasoline should be a lot cheaper.
Since AAA started tracking prices in 2004, retail gasoline has only twice been above $2 a gallon while crude was under $40. Prices at the pump are now almost three times as high as oil on a per-barrel basis, the biggest gap on record.
http://www.autonews.com/article/2015082 ... news-daily
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AAA expects the average retail price in the U.S. to fall at or near $2 a gallon by the end of the year, Green said.
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Texas is going to hurt, bad, due to prices of oil falling. Texas has the highest employment in the domestic oil industry - something like 3.5 million jobs permanent jobs. Experts anticipate a recession in the sate of Texas as a result of job losses as prices fall. As much as I like the $2 a gallon price, I'd rather pay $3.50 a gallon and keep a healthy local economy.theholycow wrote:AAA expects the average retail price in the U.S. to fall at or near $2 a gallon by the end of the year, Green said.
That said, the Scoob averages 24.3 MPG in the last 1400 miles or so. This is generally 10 MPG less than what I would have gotten out of the Sonic, but inconsequential in the long run.
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