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On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 01:32 -0400, John Jaranson wrote: > > All told, with my side trip to Minnesota and correcting for my smaller > front tires, Sophy and I logged 6371 miles. I used 243 gallons of gas > for a total average corrected fuel economy of 26.2 mpg. Not too bad > and pretty consistent with Jim's FI number. I paid as little as $2.779 > (in WY) per gal to as high as $3.499 (in CA) per gal for mid-grade > fuel. > I don't want to hear about your gas mileage. :( j/k. Going out, when I was running with you guys, I was getting about 22mpg, with a SUV, running 70mph. When I left you people and kicked it up to 80-85 mph, I dropped to about 19 mpg. BUT, coming back, was a different story. On one tank of gas, I only got about 10 mpg, 15mpg was the best I got on the way home. But then I was towing a 1400 lbs trailer, with 1 1/2 bus's on it. Dead Man's Pass between Oregon and Idaho, on I-84 was clear down to 2nd gear in the trans, and turning 4500 rpm. It took me 3 days of hard driving to get home. -- russw <russw@classicvw.org> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~