Just read the Snopes comments on this - thanks Devon - and noticed that at the end they made the general comment that it is far better to make sure the car is well serviced, has the correct tyre pressures and not to carry unnecessary weight around.
However, it didn't occur to them to say that if you always keep your fuel tank at least half full, you are always carrying 20+ litres of fuel as cargo. Petrol is 0.74 the weight of water, so each litre of petrol weighs about 740grams. One of our small English cars has a 50 litre tanks so full the fuel is 37kilos, half full therefore 18.5kilos. A bit like carrying a sack of potatoes all the time. And the bigger your tank, the more this would apply It would be interesting to compare the extra fuel needed to carry the extra fuel around, with the amount of fuel lost to evaporation in the tank. Jacquie, just getting ready to leave to teach lace in Malaga. It feels a bit like coals to Newcastle as they have three teachers going from Italy, and I'm going from England to teach a Milanese lace class. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
