Re: [Texascavers] gas mileage

2008-07-23 Thread wwildchild
Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 7:14 pm Subject: Re: [Texascavers] gas mileage Rumor has it that Nico Escamilla has become the Texas Caver remailer moderator? -WaV On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Nico Escamilla pitboun...@gmail.com wrote: may I suggest that we take

[Texascavers] gas mileage

2008-07-21 Thread Mixon Bill
13 MPG in a Jeep? Hard to believe it's that bad. Must have been going 80. You can't really do this calculation on the basis on one fill-up, because there can be significant variation in just how full you actually get the tank. Average over several tanks. Interesting question: Which saves

Re: [Texascavers] gas mileage

2008-07-21 Thread Nico Escamilla
13 MPG sounds way too bad for a jeep, thats what my friend's F250 gets and that truck has a big V10 in it Nico On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Mixon Bill bmixon...@austin.rr.com wrote: 13 MPG in a Jeep? Hard to believe it's that bad. Must have been going 80. You can't really do this

RE: [Texascavers] gas mileage

2008-07-21 Thread Stefan Creaser
Actually a Prius does pretty well, oficially close to 50mpg but in reality still over 40, afaik. Cheers, Stefan -Original Message- From: Mixon Bill [mailto:bmixon...@austin.rr.com] (Not that there's any such thing as a car that gets 40 in real life.) --Mixon -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The

Re: [Texascavers] gas mileage

2008-07-21 Thread Diana Tomchick
Trick question--you save more gas switching from the SUV with 15 MPG to one that gets 20 MPG. Proof: Drive all four vehicles for 10,000 miles and calculate the number of gallons of gas used. 15 MPG: uses 666.67 ga. 20 MPG: uses 500 ga. 25 MPG: uses 400 ga. 40 MPG: uses 250 ga. Voila,

Re: [Texascavers] gas mileage

2008-07-21 Thread Lyndon Tiu
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:29:22 -0500 bmixon...@austin.rr.com wrote: 13 MPG in a Jeep? Hard to believe it's that bad. Must have been going 80. I purposely drove at 55 miles per hour on a 70 miles per hour road between Barnhart and Ozona. I purposedly went at that speed (55 mph) thinking that

Re: [Texascavers] gas mileage

2008-07-21 Thread Nico Escamilla
may I suggest that we take this discussion to the OT list? Nico On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Sam Young youn...@centurytel.net wrote: *(Not that there's any such thing as a car that gets 40 in real life.) --Mixon* OK, this is not cave related but if someone thinks that me and my Honda

Re: [Texascavers] gas mileage

2008-07-21 Thread Don Cooper
Rumor has it that Nico Escamilla has become the Texas Caver remailer moderator? -WaV On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Nico Escamilla pitboun...@gmail.com wrote: may I suggest that we take this discussion to the OT list? Nico On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Sam Young

Re: [Texascavers] gas mileage

2008-07-21 Thread Charles Goldsmith
No, but I may give him a job and a very ban stick for all of the OT :p Charles On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Don Cooper wavyca...@gmail.com wrote: Rumor has it that Nico Escamilla has become the Texas Caver remailer moderator? -WaV On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Nico Escamilla

RE: [Texascavers] gas mileage

2008-07-21 Thread RD Milhollin
Could do worse, if this rumor is based on Nico's suggestion to move the gas/mileage discussion to the OT list. _ From: Don Cooper [mailto:wavyca...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 7:15 PM To: Nico Escamilla Cc: Sam Young; texas cavers Subject: Re: [Texascavers] gas mileage

Re: [Texascavers] gas mileage

2008-07-21 Thread Nico Escamilla
I'd be honored to help watch/moderate texascavers Nico On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Charles Goldsmith wo...@justfamily.org wrote: No, but I may give him a job and a very ban stick for all of the OT :p Charles On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Don Cooper wavyca...@gmail.com wrote: