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Date:         Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:01:00 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: What's your relative MPG?
Comments: To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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a slightly scarier way, since it reveals what it really costs in fuel to cover ground.... is just calculate how many miles you get out of a dollar of fuel, regardless of what type it is.

when fuel was 4,00 per gallon for regular, my 20 mpg turbo Volvo : $ 4.00 goes 20 miles...... 'miles per dollar' means divide the miles by the dollar amount of fuel. 20 divided by 4 equals 5 miles per dollar. sounds terrible when you see expressed it that way. With gas no being half that cost right now, , I'm up to 10 miles per dollar these days.

my all time ever record is 23 miles per dollar in a 56 VW Bus in the 70's., I put 100 dollars in a envelope, and only purchased gas from that stash........and drove 2,300 miles.

And so lucky we can still do this. Gas price here in southern Oregon started shooting up all of a sudden, even 10 cents a gallon in one day.

From: "Roger Whittaker" <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:00 PM Subject: Re: What's your relative MPG?

> 30 is my relative MPG > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Chris S <szpejankowski@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is more for diesel drivers, Vanagon or otherwise. >> >> What is your MPG as it relates to the current cost of gas? In other >> words, what kind of fuel consumption would a gasoline car have to >> achieve to cost the same amount in fuel to drive? >> >> I put up a simple page here to help you calculate it: >> http://www.knology.net/~vw/relative_mpg<http://www.knology.net/%7Evw/relative_mpg> >> >> As of now, at $2.49 diesel and $1.59 RUG, my Beetle TDI gets a >> relative 29 MPG. A Vanagon TDI might get 30 MPG but its current >> relative MPG is 19. As price of fuel fluctuates, so does your >> relative MPG. Back in May of 2006, my Beetle got relative 47 MPG. >> :-) >> >> -- >> Chris S. >> Disclaimer: "Death and serious injury may occur" >> > > > > -- > roger w > There are two kinds of jobs in the world: > Picking up garbage and telling people things. > Successful people do both, with the same good attitude. (riw) > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Explore printed work at: http://www.prliving.ca/ > View the growing list of video work at: > http://revver.com/find/video/?query=LastonLastof&search_on=owners > and ... older work at > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7135104650374818257 > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3259745150182742364


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