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danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: RayB on April 16, 2008, 03:23:19 pm ---

I hear actually the rates are directly related to the absence of pirates, or something like that...



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you know it's true! i can vouch for this being the grand prophet of the holy noodle

RAMEN.

Havok:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on April 19, 2008, 12:41:54 am ---
paiges car aint 350hp...

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That I know - I just meant the V8 slurpin part...

 ;D

patrickmaher:
05 Toyota Prius 42MPG

mrtie:
2000 park avenue ultra about 25-28mpg
1987 porsche 944 about 28-30mpg

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 17, 2008, 09:30:08 pm ---I daily drive a V8.

Producing a new car ALSO uses a lot of energy and a lot of oil, and despite what you might think it is actually more sound to use up that V8 vehicle and THEN buy a more fuel efficient one that it is to take the V8 off the road before it is used up.

If you want to throttle someone then throttle the long commute people. My weekly commute in my V8 is a grand total of 72 miles using 3.5 gallons of fuel (for the whole week). Plenty of people use more fuel than that in a single day in their hybrid and somehow feel superior because they get good gas mileage, even though they are driving 75 miles to work in San Francisco each way and that is the closest they could afford to live to the smug capital of the world.

So, hows your commute Apollo??


--- Quote from: Apollo on April 17, 2008, 04:54:05 am ---40mpg in my 1.6L Suzuki Vitara

Anyone driving a V8 as their regular drive who does not have to tow anything should burn in hell.

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very good point. my car isnt thought of as a gas guzzler, but commuting it gets only about 20MPG. i live so close to work though that it uses about 5 litres of petrol (a bit over 1 gallon) of petrol per week! i normally ride my bike to work though. as patrickl mentioned, you cant blaim people for buying older gas guzzlers when they are cheap.  you can blame car companies for building NEW gas guzzlers. that's wrong.

part of the problem i guess is a tendancy for people in the 'sprawls' to also like activities that might require bigger vehicles- camping, boating etc. the culture needs to change so that people realise you dont need 300-400 HP to get to a forrest or tow a boat...

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