Date:         Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:33:15 EDT
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From:         George Goff <THX0001@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: How hard can you push a Westy?/How much gas you got?
Comments: To: lbusch@IX.NETCOM.COM
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In a message dated 4/10/03 12:57:19 AM, lbusch@IX.NETCOM.COM writes:

<< result: just over 22mpg at 55, just under 18mpg at 70  >>

I've had to make a certain trip many times during the past 2 years.  I
usually buzz my Syncro near redline in order to stay even with the crowd.
This results in about 18 mpg for the trip.  On one occasion this past winter
the weather turned especially nasty which forced me to drive about 100 miles
of the return leg at 35-45 mph.  Thinking the gas gauge had queefed out and
was reading high, I stop to fill up when I was almost home.  I ended up
standing in a pool of gas because I could not believe how little it was
taking.  At the snail's pace I had been driving, the van returned over 25
mpg!  A nearly 40% decrease in fuel consumption can give one pause.

George