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KB2VXA > FUEL 11.02.11 19:03l 46 Lines 2197 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 63893_VK6ZRT
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Subj: Re: G0TEZ > MPG
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From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : FUEL@WW
Hi Ian and all,
I rather figured the best MPG these days is at highway speed as it always
has been... more or less. Basically it all has to do with RPM and of
course the MPH went up a bit when boxy US styling gave way to sleek
European body designs. Sports cars excepted, they've always been built
for speed, hi.
Just to bring you up to speed, all along in most states unless posted the
speed limit is 50mph on the open road and 25mph within town limits.
Posted highway speeds were greater but then came that fake oil crisis and
the national 55mph limit, such a "I can't drive 55!" howl it raised and
once people realized they'd been lied to six ways to Sunday the posted
limits went back to normal, on the NJ toll roads it's 65 except for 55 in
rather small heavy traffic areas. Now if I could only remember the desert
southwest areas where highways run straight as arrows mile after mile,
there are NO speed limits. Nope, the left lane of the Autobahn isn't the
only place where speed is limited only by the vehicle itself and don't
forget it's posted for 80kph where the 'bahn runs through cities.
Why don't American cars have smaller engines? Because I CAN'T DRIVE 55!
(;->) Sarcasm again, truth is Americans never heard of the power to
weight ratio being the determining factor, could be why during that
"crisis" there also was a huge outcry over those "Japanese rubbernese
cars" being unsafe as compared to those huge aircraft carriers with
wheels.
Not to worry, sooner or later Americans will get their comeuppins when
fuel prices rise to meet the rest of the world. The phrase "nobody walks
in L.A." will be a thing of the past, freeways demolished and replaced
with tramways, everywhere public transport will dominate and those gas
guzzlers will become museum pieces for kids to wonder at and ask their
parents why they were so stupid. Oh and then comes separation of sheeple
from goatple, either daddy will shrug and say he doesn't know or smack
the kid silly. (;->)
73 de Warren
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