$2.59 Regular $2.67 Diesel Southern Indiana ________________________________
From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 2:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: American automotive (was: Is Exchange Doomed?) Since we're on the subject of fuel efficiency, I was curious what gas/diesel prices are in your area. Reg. Unleaded = $2.89 Diesel = $3.29 Anchorage, Alaska - Sean On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: Dang - I considered a Mini Cooper when buying my Kia, but the cargo capacity wasn't there and it was more expensive. A diesel would be nice, fer sher. Kurt On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:40, Sobey, Richard A<r.so...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > Makes me so proud of my ~60MPG @ 70MPH in my new Mini Cooper Diesel (and ~40MPG @ 105MPH, but I never did that, honestly). > > /loves fuel bill. > > -----Original Message----- > From: bounce-8579465-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8579465-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Ben Scott > Sent: 26 June 2009 16:47 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT: American automotive (was: Is Exchange Doomed?) > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Ben Scott<mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Amazingly enough, doing 80 MPH in 5th gear >>> yields lower MPG than doing 65 MPH in 5th gear. :-) > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Micheal Espinola > Jr<michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I believe it. I've def. had cars that had lower MPG at 75+. I've >> never seen savings at 55. > > Gah, I'm an idiot. I reversed the intended sense in my statement. > I was trying to be sarcastic with the "Amazingly", and so reinforced > the confusion. > > MPG is better at 65 MPH than 80 MPH. How much, I'm not sure, but I > know I can use less gas if I drive less aggressively. > > I do tend to drive aggressively. I also haven't had the plugs > changed in too long. And I'm an AC junky. So I typically get between > 21 and 25 MPG in my 9-year-old Forrester. On all-highway trips when > it was new, 28 to 30 MPG, easily. > > 80 MPH is pushing the engine a bit, I think. Not "oh my God it's > going to explode", but it's starting to whine a little. I got it up > to just over 90 MPH once, then concern for both road safety and the > engine won over and I backed off. The speedometer goes up to 120 MPH > but I think that's being optimistic. 90 was already getting close to > redline, and the engine sounded like a blender on puree. This is on > the 4-cylinder base engine. They have an H6 on some models that's > considerably beefier, or so I've read. > > It's interesting to hear that some cars get lower MPG at higher > speeds. I wouldn't have expected that. > > -- Ben > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > >
