Date:         Wed, 4 May 2005 10:18:54 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From:         Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: gas mileage
Comments: To: Don Williams <williams@FIRE.BIOL.WWU.EDU>
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If we cared, really, we'd being walking.

Barefoot.

Mike

On 5/4/05 9:40 AM, "Don Williams" <williams@FIRE.BIOL.WWU.EDU> wrote:

> 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
>
>