Mileage thread!

A couple of weeks ago, we drove to Ontario in my 1995 Audi convertible, part of the way w/the top down. We got over 30 miles/gallon, but that's with fill ups with premium (about 50-60 bucks).

Bad news, though, for the big heavy cars/trucks out there. The good news is that scrap metal prices are way up.

Let's get this out of the way before a real one shows up:




I get unlimited MPG with this. Suckit gas hogs! There's no reason anyone needs to drive a car and if you do you are a planet-raping tool.

/oh, and I don't own a TV either

quietbs:Let's get this out of the way before a real one shows up:

I get unlimited MPG with this. Suckit gas hogs! There's no reason anyone needs to drive a car and if you do you are a planet-raping tool.

/oh, and I don't own a TV either

I own one of those, too...until recently cycled 3x a week, the 16 miles a day to and from public transportation. These days I mostly telecommute from home and go in once or twice a week.

/and lots of fluorescent bulbs here
//and no tv except for dvd-watching
///but central air -- aaaah, central air.

Mileage thread!

My old boat of a car (97 Oldsmobile) averages 28MPG, and it isn't worth anything to trade-in, so I guess that's good enough for me.

Anything with a 20 gallon tank is going to cost $100+ to fill up.

It's how often you fill up.

MELTED GAS PARKING LOT

Hummer drivers can suck it.

/11.9 gallon civic makes it impossible to put even 50 dollars into a tank and runs forever on one.
//how sad is it a 10 year old car is more efficient than most new cars....

I get approximately 1000 mps
\miles per shoe
\\walking distance of everything and everyone.

should we just copy and paste all the comments from previous gas threads and call it a day?

My old boat of a 93 camry gets about 30mpg. Although both back windows are broken, so that probably farks my mileage up.

/dumbass thief couldn't see the back left was already broken, so he punched in the back right and rifled through my shiat, clearly finding nothing of value as i'm not a farking idiot and one of my windows was already broken

This weekend i went from Rochester, New York to Worcester, Massachusetts on the way to; i got 38 mpg in my 1999 Honda Civic taking me approx 5 hrs and going back i got 35 mpg in approx 5.4 hrs.

I spotted 19 Toyota Priuses on the way back from MA.

6 of them were light blue.

1 of them was pulled over by a NY State cop and i thought to myself- A Prius goes fast enough to get pulled over?

Do any fast recumbent bicycles go at least 60 mph? Who sells them?

I drive a '63 VW Beetle every day. Today I filled it up for $35 even. An old-timer came over to admire my car and said he had a similar one back in the '60s...back then he could fill the tank for under two bucks.

Even better is my '70 Honda CL450 motorcycle...totally empty, it only takes about ten bucks to fill. And it gets about 50 mpg, too, even when I drive like a bat out of hell (which I do).

We are in for a very difficult 5-7 years as we adjust to the new realities. This has been a ticking time bomb which Washington leadership has ignored since Ronald Reagan entered office. We have had the better part of thirty years to adjust to coming peak oil crisis. It is here today, and we are now forced to adjust rapidly instead of spreading the costs over decades, and having a coherent plan. WE still can't get coherent leadership beyond drill more oil. WTF!!!!!

Used to drive a Geo Metro which got a bit over 40MPG on the highway with its manual, 3 cylinder engine. Speedometer only went up to 90mph.

Kicked SUV ass in MPG, but not so much in safety...

FTFA "Usually I don't let it get real empty so that I don't have to see that $100 on the pump,"

Freakin' idiot drives around hauling a 1/2 tank or more... On purpose,.. just so his little head doesn't asplode.

Try a half tank or less, unless you just might be traveling when and where gas stations are not.

Boneheads!

You morons still pay for gas?

Gas-running for the win. Remember why Bonnie and Clyde were so popular? Don't answer...just think.

nicoffeine:Anything with a 20 gallon tank is going to cost $100+ to fill up.

It's how often you fill up.

People don't look at it that way. That's because people are dumb.

quietbs:I get unlimited MPG with this. Suckit gas hogs! There's no reason anyone needs to drive a car and if you do you are a planet-raping tool.

Yeah? Well I don't even have, nor have I ever used a computer.

jaylectricity:Don't answer...just think.

Or investigate...either way.

I, for one, will miss the old Hummer overlords.

Ahhh....Filled up my Suburban today, $112.

I love killing the planet with my comfy leather seats, dual AC, V-8, XM Satellite Radio, and of course my smugness.

/14MPG
//Your honda wouldn't survive if I hit it.
///I call it the "Mobile Oppression Palace"
////Flame on!

robbiedo:WE still can't get coherent leadership beyond drill more oil. WTF!!!!!

I believe Canada is our biggest supplier. The others are not holding back on production, either. We could glut our market and the price would stay high.

Oil futures Wall Street traders For Teh Steal.

/Glut

Pitching a tent.

I'm at 24-26 MPG with my car. lower 20's if I'm carless on how I drive. Even at a 18 gallon tank (16 by the light comes on, and I fill up) I'm only hitting $70 now. And that lasts me a week and half or a week if I had to do a lot of driving, but it's mostly a week.

$100 wouldn't bother me. But then maybe it's because I don't drive much. If I had to do $100 every few days it would hurt, but $100 every weekend - its all part of life. Adjust or die.

I work at a convenience store/gas station in South Texas (where gas prices are still slightly below national average) and I have noticed a significant change in fueling habits as compared to when I was a teen and gas was still $1/gallon.

VERY few people come into my store requesting a fill-up. For the most part, I get people asking for $5 here, $12 there...basically enough gas to get them where they are going. They will stop by my store multiple times per day, but they seem to be more concerned with only keeping enough gas to get them to their destination at any given time.

/I fill up my tank for about $4/week
//just bought a scooter
///have had it for three weeks now and already had at least 5 offers to buy it from me

oldweevil:quietbs:I get unlimited MPG with this. Suckit gas hogs! There's no reason anyone needs to drive a car and if you do you are a planet-raping tool.

Yeah? Well I don't even have, nor have I ever used a computer.

Feh. I don't even have city electricity. I generate electrical power by recycling my own waste.

Bucky Katt:I, for one, will miss the old Hummer overlords.

Why are we judging people by the cars they drive?

Is this an '80's TV show or something?

The Prius will haul ass. I had one as a rental a couple of winters ago and was able to commute I-83 at 80+mph the whole way. Accelerated fairly well and handled impressively.

Still prefer my Dodge Ram, though.

/hate the fillups

GunshipPolitico:I get approximately 1000 mps
\miles per shoe
\\walking distance of everything and everyone.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright

Pootums:FTFA "Usually I don't let it get real empty so that I don't have to see that $100 on the pump,"

Freakin' idiot drives around hauling a 1/2 tank or more... On purpose,.. just so his little head doesn't asplode.

Try a half tank or less, unless you just might be traveling when and where gas stations are not.

Boneheads!

Yeah, but apparently it's better on their fuel pump... And the extra weight is probably negligible considering the fact that gas will usually only go up, so it's not like they'd save money in the long run by filling up less frequently since they're driving the same.

Spending $8k on a Metro is dumb, but selling your Yukon XL in favor of a Honda Civic (hybrid or not) might not be such a dumb move.

/if you can find anyone to buy your Yukon XL.

quietbs:oldweevil:quietbs:I get unlimited MPG with this. Suckit gas hogs! There's no reason anyone needs to drive a car and if you do you are a planet-raping tool.

Yeah? Well I don't even have, nor have I ever used a computer.

Feh. I don't even have city electricity. I generate electrical power by recycling my own waste.

Uh huh. I don't use any electricity at all. I access the internet via notes written on parchment delivered by carrier pigeon

My car has a 4-cylinder engine and a 14 gallon tank which gets 32 highway/26 city.

Gas would have to be $7.15/gal for me to have $100 fillups.

Pootums:Freakin' idiot drives around hauling a 1/2 tank or more... On purpose,.. just so his little head doesn't asplode.

Try a half tank or less, unless you just might be traveling when and where gas stations are not.

Boneheads!

The mass of an extra half tank is pretty much irrelevant given the mass of the car itself. You probably waste more gas (not to mention time) needing to go to gas stations more often than you save with better mileage.

Dont trash out your big old gas guzzler just because prices are up here.....

Put it in a cargo container and ship it to the middle east, gas is cheap there and someone will pay for it....

I know of an outfit that does something similar, but they part the cars out and load them into a shipping container for other countries

If I had the money for a start up I would be looking into exporting hummers and escalades to the middle east and Russia, where the governmetns subsidize the price of oil....

I wish I could bike to work but it's quite a distance and I'm not biking down Washington (Indy) during rush-hour all the way to Plainfield.

The two good things are I drive an '05 Focus that gets great mileage and I don't work during the summer - so I walk or jog everywhere.

IKanHazaBukkit:This weekend i went from Rochester, New York to Worcester, Massachusetts on the way to; i got 38 mpg in my 1999 Honda Civic taking me approx 5 hrs and going back i got 35 mpg in approx 5.4 hrs.

I spotted 19 Toyota Priuses on the way back from MA.

6 of them were light blue.

1 of them was pulled over by a NY State cop and i thought to myself- A Prius goes fast enough to get pulled over?

probably pulled over for driving while smug

I could get to work by bike, I have in the past, but thats because it's only 7 minutes by car and maybe 1.5 liters of gas.
So less then 3 dollars saves me 80 minutes (round trip) of sweat and danger.
That doesn't factor in insurance, asset depreciation, government fees, assorted maintenance and normal wear and tear.
Once I'm paying that on a car another 1.5 liters to use the car becomes hard to resist.

Bucky Katt:I access the internet via notes written on parchment delivered by carrier pigeon

4chan must be farking surreal at your house.

My mini Cooper cost me 52$ to fill up yesterday. Of course I only put premium in it. I amn't really complaining but I can understand people getting a shock out of the gas prices. Too bad, this didn't happen years ago before they went out and brought their 10MPG vehicles.

Hmmm....should I go with the 'aw jeez not this shiat again" guy or the 'dead horse'.....?

I ran over 4 bicycles and 3 motor scooters on my way to post this.

My Scion gets 33 MPG and costs all of $40 to fill up completely. That much gas lasts me 2 weeks.


/smugsmugsmugsmug....

r1niceboy:"I don't know if it gets better gas mileage, but I like it because it costs $100 to fill it"

That was my thought too.

"I don't know if it gets better gas mileage, but I like her car because it costs $100 to fill it,"

Sometimes it's really hard to be proud to be American.

I am SHOCKED that the Chevy Avalanche Fan Club of North America

1) exists
2) has a board
3) has chapters
4) has an adminstrator
5) meets online to chat

what the hell is a chevy avalanche?

That means pitching a tent every night, and no fishing.

Did I read that wrong?

/Yukon 14/19
/Land Cruiser 13/18

Bucky Katt:probably pulled over for driving while smug

Then I can expect to be pulled over for the smug, ear-to-ear grin I wear when riding around town on my scooter?

quietbs:Let's get this out of the way before a real one shows up:

I get unlimited MPG with this. Suckit gas hogs! There's no reason anyone needs to drive a car and if you do you are a planet-raping tool.

/oh, and I don't own a TV either

AnyOne recall the sceen form Arrested Development where Jason Bateman tries to steal a big tv from work with his bike.....

Yeah, so bikes are pretty much out...

Cant ride em in the rain safley, no winter use, nightime is tricky, limited cargo capacity, show up to work needing a shower and new clothes, breathing exhaust the whole way, no multi tasking, those gay shorts, cant bring home anything with a dimension greater than 18x18 inches, wont be bringing home a hot chick period, sunburn, cant take them into elevators, cant leave em outside, a good one costs more than a metro, cant take your kids with you.....

Man, bikes suck.