Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:40:47 -0700
Reply-To: Don Williams <williams@FIRE.BIOL.WWU.EDU>
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From: Don Williams <williams@FIRE.BIOL.WWU.EDU>
Subject: gas mileage
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So I have my 85 westy with manual transmission running about as perfect as
this human is able to get it----and I get 16 miles to the gallon. I have
worked methodically through my 20's list (the things that I was doing to
get my vehicle to get 20 MPG, but after working through it I'm faced with
the probability that that ain't never going to happen (unless I go to a
different engine). I love my beast but I get ridiculed by friends who
drive really horrible cars (eg, Pontiac firebirds and Cadillac eldorado's,
really ugly and old cars that I look at as environmental disasters) but get
better gas mileages than I do. I have taken to mumbling when people ask me
about the gas mileage, so that 16 MPG sounds something like 26 MPG. I
carry a heavy burden in this matter because I parade myself (in some
circles) as an "environmentalist" and people who know what I drive ain't
buying it. My wife told me that if I gave a sh** about the environment I
would be driving a Prius. I carry this burden as best I can but it is hell
to love a vehicle that gets such poor mileage.
Should I auction it off on Ebay or say to hell with the critics???
Don
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