Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:15:17 -0500
Reply-To: Chris S <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Chris S <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: What's your relative MPG?
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Adjusted for inflation?
On 1/8/09, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> 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"
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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