Todd wrote:
> Bill Baka wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to save it. My cable/Internet is costing almost $100/month,
>> Cell phones are holding at about $100 per month, gas for my daughter to
>> drive 40 miles each way induces real pain at the pump. 16 gallons at
>> $4.39 (Today's price) makes even a 25+ MPG car look like a hog.
>
>
> 25+ mpg is a hog. Cars have been doing 35 mpg (highway) since at
> least the 80s. We should be up to 50 mpg by now.
>
>
>
Total agreement. The car makers are not even trying. I had a 1961
Rambler with a 196 cubic inch flathead, stick that started out at about
25MPG. After putting in an overdrive and the tallest possible rear end
3.90 to 3.00 it jumped to 38 MPG just by **not** spinning the engine as
fast as it had been. WTF happened to sanity? Both my Mazda 323 and
Toyota Tercel get about 25-28 MPG and both will run in top overdrive at
30 MPH, meaning they are both geared too low. Unfortunately neither the
public nor the car makers seem intelligent enough to realize this.
I know that is OT, but this is just a flag to let people know that big
companies could care less about the environment.
Bill Baka

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> Todd wrote:
>> Bill Baka wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to save it. My cable/Internet is costing almost $100/month,
>>> Cell phones are holding at about $100 per month, gas for my daughter to
>>> drive 40 miles each way induces real pain at the pump. 16 gallons at
>>> $4.39 (Today's price) makes even a 25+ MPG car look like a hog.
>>
>>
>> 25+ mpg is a hog. Cars have been doing 35 mpg (highway) since at
>> least the 80s. We should be up to 50 mpg by now.
>>
>>
>>
> Total agreement. The car makers are not even trying. I had a 1961 Rambler
> with a 196 cubic inch flathead, stick that started out at about 25MPG.
> After putting in an overdrive and the tallest possible rear end
> 3.90 to 3.00 it jumped to 38 MPG just by **not** spinning the engine as
> fast as it had been. WTF happened to sanity? Both my Mazda 323 and Toyota
> Tercel get about 25-28 MPG and both will run in top overdrive at 30 MPH,
> meaning they are both geared too low. Unfortunately neither the public nor
> the car makers seem intelligent enough to realize this.
> I know that is OT, but this is just a flag to let people know that big
> companies could care less about the environment.
> Bill Baka


Oh yeah ?
Wanna punch in the eyeball socket congruent with the fist that I project in
you general facial proximity ?
I'll do it.
Bet you face ejects cystic bacterial phlegm in my general latitudinal
location as extreme performuntional testostronal hemorrhoids kick into full
attack mode.
The horror !
****kin reject


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