Gas Mileage

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[bassman8604]

Well I have a 94 GASE 2.3L, a 95 GASE 3.1 V6, and my GF has a 2000 GASE 3.4 V6 and all the cars get just about the same gas mileage as yours. Now around here the fastest speed limit is 65 but most people go about 75-80. and I completely disagree with you about lowering our speed limits they have a minimum speed limit for a reason and here its usually 45 so if you want to drive slower than go right ahead but why punish the rest of us by lowering the speed limit. I think Germany has the right idea with the autobahn

[Pontiacfinder]

I get 31mpg with my car no matter what speed and mines the 3.4 V6. J/W have you changed the fuel filter?

[rixGAphx]

Yes, there is that much of a *difference*, 3-4 mpg, between 75-80 and 55-60.

We tried this in the '70's, and it resulted in CB radio's so everybody knew where Smokey was and they could exceed the f'ing "double-nickel" without getting a ticket.

Try to ban booze.
Oh, wait.
They did that, called it "Prohibition" and it just created gangsters, speakeasies, and a nation that KNEW they had to break the law 'a little bit'.
Then it was repealed.

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All that being said, get you car tuned.
You are personally wasting more gasoline, and creating more pollution, than any of us driving 'fast' in well-maintained cars.

A V6 GA in good tune, with tires propely inflated and engine running smoothly with good plugs, wires, O2 sensors, and clean air fliter, should get right at 30 mpg at 75 on the flat highways of North Dakota.
I got 30.5 as my best, on the flat desert from Tucson to Phoenix, cruise set at 75, from on-ramp gas station to off-ramp gas station.
That would have gotten about 34mpg at 60mph; except I'd be DEAD from the semitractor-trailers running over me.
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It's a cost-benefit analysis, bottom-line:
A semi gets mebbe 6 mpg of diesel (3.00/gallon) at 60, and only 4.5mpg at 75.
So he saves 1.5 gallons, therefore 1.5 x 3 = $4.5, per hour of travel; $18 every 4 hours on the road.
But it takes him another 1 hour to go the additional 60 miles to travel the 300 miles he'd travel at 75 in 4 hours.
So he LOSES money out of his pocket relative to a40-hr work week, since he's paid by the mile/trip.

Same with me: It's 300 miles from Phoenix to LA.
4 hours at 75, 10 gallons consumed (at 30 mpg) = $27.50 in gas for the trip (at today's gas price of $2.75 per gallon).
5 hours at 60, 9 gallons consumed (at 34 mpg) = $24.75 in gas; it takes me (and my passengers) 1 hour longer, but we saved $2.75 :roll:
Our time is worth money.
We must either take-off early from work for the extra hour of travel time, or lose 1 hour of vacation time in LA at each end of the weekend.
For me and two passengers, making $20/hour, that's $60 in lost wages to save one gallon of gasoline at $2.75.
Notice that we car-pooled, so we saved a lot of the earth's resources, especially compared to a 1-hour jet flight with 2 hours of security/checkin time at departure and 1-hour of baggage/rentacar pickup at the arrival.
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That is why the stoopid 'Drive 55' was voted-out by Congress.

If you want to drive slowly, go ahead.
Just don't do less than 45 on an Interstate highway, and for pete's sake SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT like the signs in the median state.
Otherwise you'll be a dead tree-hugger when a semi runs over you (legally) at 75.

Take your tree-hugging trolling to a site where people can be snowed by sophomoric reasoning.
This 'green' old hippie knows how to reason based on facts.

'K?
bye.

[ENGGUY]

We should not lower speed limits, all that does is give them more leverage into your pocket book if you have to be in a hurry that day you get pulled over. And then of course the extra expense for car insurance after the fact. If you want to save gas then you yourself slow down and make sure your in the right hand lane when you do so. Don't force any more crap on me or others that don't want it.
I have a car that gets 43 miles to the gallon pushing 75 to 80 mph. It also gets that in city traffic and there my speed is like very very slow, 15 mph at the most, I would rather be here at the computer than sitting in my car poking along. If anything we need the speeds raised. And did you know what is causing extra fuel burn is the demand for more HP. If the cars were designed right they could go 120 mph and get 50 mpg. But everyone wants all the comfy garbage in a car, they need to be shaped like a jet fight plane with inline seats like a fighter plane. Aerodynamic drag is what commands more HP. I say we need small rocket ship shaped gocarts, and then we could fit 2 to a lane side by side, and have some instant extra lanage, and every car on the road would be a high occupancy vehicle and fast. We need more restrictive licensing that requires all to pass a high speed and skid pad test, and if you can't handle it your off the road. They don't even want to make it a skills level thing do they? Any old $$$ rich person can buy a big luxury car, and clogg the roads, they don't even have to know how to drive.

[rixGAphx]

Any old $$$ rich person can buy a big luxury car, and clog the roads,
they don't even have to know how to drive.You live in Seattle, so you only experience a few of these a$$hats.

They'll ALL be showing up here in Arizona (well, some go to Florida) in a couple days.
Apparently the 'snowbirds' like to drive on Halloween, so they don't have to deal with Trick-or-Treating at either of their residences.
Then they land here in communities of like-minded numbskulls, and tool around our city streets making the most BIZARRE manuvers and generally making our lives a nightmare.

Working people can only go to the bank over their lunch hours, which is when the bank is half-staffed due to tellers taking lunch :roll:
Why do old folks, with absofawkinglutely NOTHING else to do the entire day, hafta do their diddly-chit banking over the noon-hour???? :banghead:

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[bassman8604]

[QUOTE=rixGAphx;1083697]Yes, there is that much of a *difference*, 3-4 mpg, between 75-80 and 55-60.

If you want to drive slowly, go ahead.
Just don't do less than 45 on an Interstate highway, and for pete's sake SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT like the signs in the median state.
Otherwise you'll be a dead tree-hugger when a semi runs over you (legally) at 75.

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:lol:AMEN Brother :lol: