Subj : Re: Gas Crunch
To   : Finnigann
From : Ralph Smole
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 12:14:00

  Re: Re: Gas Crunch
  By: Finnigann to America on Sun Aug 28 2005 10:16 pm

 > -=> Frank wrote to Diamond Dave <=-
 > 
 >  Fr>   Re: Gas Crunch
 >  Fr>   By: Diamond Dave to Digital Man on Sun Aug 28 2005 12:50 pm
 > 
 >  >  > I own a "gas hog SUV". However, it's only drive for about 5000 miles a
 >  >  > I don't think it's effecting the world's fossil fuel consumption rate 
 >  >  > car I drive every day gets a respectable 25+ mpg. So just *owning* an 
 >  >  > does not immediately make one a "gas hog".
 > 
 >  > Is that what the tag says, or did you actually do some calculations when 
 >  > filled it up at the gas station?
 > 
 >  > Those so-called MPG signs on new cars are almost never right.
 > 
 > 
 >  > *** Diamond Dave ***
 > 
 >  Fr>     I drive a S-10 Blazer ZR2 and that thing is a joke! 17 or 18 mpg.
 >  Fr> If I
 >  Fr>    had to drive it to and from work it would have to go! That 4.3
 >  Fr> vortec
 >  Fr>    is inefficient as they come. Thats a small vehicle getting that kind
 >  Fr> of
 >  Fr>    mileage. I can see why GM dropped the vortec v6. With that kind of
 >  Fr>    mileage you might as well be driving a full sized.
 > 
 > 
 > So, America now we learn what we should ahve been doing all along.
 > ONSERVING ENERGY!!
 > 
 > Seems like we did learn something about conservation back in the 70's too.
 > 
 > We can't look to the government to make life rosey either. Doing some [basic
 > research on things we like in a car isn't new to folks. We shop for satelite
 > radios adn style and color etc. But we don't give fuel effieciency enough
 > weight until we start paying thru the nose for it.
 > 
 > Ask around... What do these countries drive normally? Ask the ones paying $4
 > per gallon and have been paying it for decades?
 > 
 > In Germany (when I was stationed there) gas on the economy was around 4DM pe
 > liter.
 > 
 > With 3.785l per gallon: we get 15.14 DM per gal. And although the DM isn't u
 > in Europe any more. it was worth around 1.55 per dollar Which works out to
 > about $9.75 per gallon for gas. And this was in 1991 values, too.
 > 
 > So while we have junked the lower speed limits and turned away from the fuel
 > efficient cars, we are still asking ourselves, what happened and who's fault
 > it?
 > 
 > ... Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. -- Francis Bacon

Based on inflation, gas is STILL cheaper than back in the 70's.

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