Poor MPG / High(er) than normal fuel consumption
02-21-2011, 11:03 PM
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02-22-2011, 07:45 AM
#18
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The European governments earn more on oil than the OPEC does !!!!!
and now they are promoting Electric cars... OMG !!!! they must have concocted a new trick to
rip us off !!! tax on batteries ???
2/3 of the gas price in Holland is tax !!!
and now they are promoting Electric cars... OMG !!!! they must have concocted a new trick to
rip us off !!! tax on batteries ???
2/3 of the gas price in Holland is tax !!!
02-25-2011, 02:02 PM
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...I've got a new 02 ready to toss in there, but I seem to recall that there are other inputs that have more authority over the fueling than the 02 sensor. Does anyone have the authoritative list, and the check-out procedures to exonnerate each one so I'm not just blindly throwing parts at her? As I recall from long ago the order of precidence is:
1. Air Meter - flap-door-contraption
2. CHTs - cyl head temp
3. OT - oil temp
4. 02 sensor
1. Air Meter - flap-door-contraption
2. CHTs - cyl head temp
3. OT - oil temp
4. 02 sensor
02-25-2011, 10:27 PM
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Well, I'm old enough to remember a $0.13/gallon gas war in the 60's in West Texas, heart of US oil production before our government stopped us from drilling and made us totally reliant on places like Iraq, Egypt and Libya. I'm guessing $5.00/gallon by the end of the summer. It will make for a polarizing campaign season.
02-26-2011, 01:44 PM
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Mine routinely gets 26 mpg (U.S.) with highway usage (70-80 mph) and that's with 10% ethanol in all U.S. gasoline in my part of the world these days. Prior to the introduction of ethanol, I would routinely get 28 mpg. Around town, somewhere in the low 20s.
02-26-2011, 02:41 PM
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Just a bit of trivia: more than half the gas comsumed in the US, comes from Canada, and if you need more, we have lots, something the average American have no knowledge of.
