Fuel Economy

[Black Yaris]

Originally Posted by Racer X-8

The downward trend in the beginning is mainly I think due to the drop below $1 per gallon just after the 9-11-01 attack. The price of gas dropped un-naturally low for some reason.

the complete opposite happened here in Toledo, the gas prices skyrocketted, to over $3 a gallon, wich was unherd of at the time

[Racer X-8]

Originally Posted by Black Yaris

the complete opposite happened here in Toledo, the gas prices skyrocketted, to over $3 a gallon, wich was unherd of at the time

Holy Toledo!
hehehe, sorry, I just had to XD

But yeah, really, that's very strange and I haven't a clue why? Different resources affected differently? Our fuel surely was affected by Katrina, sudden loss of like three pipelines that come from that area, we had stations closed from being out of gas. I didn't see that since the crap that went on in '74.

Stuffy, man, be careful about coasting with your engine off, without the engine running, you can use-up your power brakes - you know, the brake booster runs on intake manifold vacuum...? And oh yeah, you could loose your power steering and your steering wheel could lock, right?

About the environment and stuff, yeah, best to keep it outta this thread I guess. I gotta hit on one thing,,, the increased pricing is making it now cost effective to tap other petroleum sources that were up till now not cost-effective, such as the Canadian Tar Sands - that up there is boomtown going bonkers expanding like wildfire from what I hear... the local infrastructure is bursting at the seams from the population explosion of all that going on. It also made major leaps and bounnds with new technological breakthroughs on how to get it out of the frozen permaforst tundra up there, but the increased petroleum pricing is what sent it over the edge. I heard that our #1 petroleum source is now Canada. Somebody do the checking on that, I seem to recall that I saw that myself, but I still can't believe it myself. And there's more oil up there than all of the Middle-east oil fields combined. I can't believe that myself either...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_sands

And there's a whole lot more oil that just isn't being touched yet either.

I'm all for getting away from petroleum as a fuel - it is most definitely going to totally run-out one day. But while we're going to something else, it's nice to know that we can kinda take our time and not be in such a chicken-with-its-head-cut-off rush about it. Hydrogen scares me still. Oh, ok, sorry... [lid put on it]

[nsmitchell]

33MPG on Premium gas. I gave it a shot. 75% hwy and 25% city. I was going pretty fast on the highway trips. Not taking it easy at the lights either. :)