Ok, so I see the first thread went on too long and got hijacked. But here's my take, keeping politics to a minimum. How to save gas?
1) CARPOOL. Ok, I work in State College (1 hour away, high $$$ real estate) and my wife works in Altoona (where we live, cheap real estate). So someone needs to make the drive and it's me. I'm lucky to have 3 other people to car pool with. It's a 90 mile round trip daily (so 4.5 gals of gas for the Colorado and about 3.3gal for the wife's Taurus...daily) . The result? I save anywhere from 45 - 67 galllons, which comes to 475 to 875 gallons a year that I save (figuring a few days I have to drive myself and which car I drive). Take those numbers times the cost of gas, and see the savings. I paid for a lot of my G-Body parts that way. BTW, I drive her car when it's my turn to drive.
2) E-85
What's great about e85? Politicians love it on both sides of the aisle, altough for different reasons. No offense to those in Iowa, but they need those first votes (albeit very few electoral votes) to get nominated. Reducing foreign energy dependence along with boosting the economies of corn farmers and others involved makes it a politcal issue.
As for efficiency, I believe in due time it will be more economical. Once farmers can power their equipment on E85 and more efficeint porcessing is developed, they will be using less oil. In the early days of cars, I'm sure there were those that go to work by horse and buggy. But in time they too could afford a cars and the horse and buggy saw its demise (save for the Amish or tourist attractions). To think there was a time when a full size car got 14mpg. With new technologies, we are near 30mpg. It's a matter not if, but when.
3) Tune-up, synthetic oil, tire inflation. You all know what to do here.
4) Keep the car clutter to a minimum.
1) CARPOOL. Ok, I work in State College (1 hour away, high $$$ real estate) and my wife works in Altoona (where we live, cheap real estate). So someone needs to make the drive and it's me. I'm lucky to have 3 other people to car pool with. It's a 90 mile round trip daily (so 4.5 gals of gas for the Colorado and about 3.3gal for the wife's Taurus...daily) . The result? I save anywhere from 45 - 67 galllons, which comes to 475 to 875 gallons a year that I save (figuring a few days I have to drive myself and which car I drive). Take those numbers times the cost of gas, and see the savings. I paid for a lot of my G-Body parts that way. BTW, I drive her car when it's my turn to drive.
2) E-85
What's great about e85? Politicians love it on both sides of the aisle, altough for different reasons. No offense to those in Iowa, but they need those first votes (albeit very few electoral votes) to get nominated. Reducing foreign energy dependence along with boosting the economies of corn farmers and others involved makes it a politcal issue.
As for efficiency, I believe in due time it will be more economical. Once farmers can power their equipment on E85 and more efficeint porcessing is developed, they will be using less oil. In the early days of cars, I'm sure there were those that go to work by horse and buggy. But in time they too could afford a cars and the horse and buggy saw its demise (save for the Amish or tourist attractions). To think there was a time when a full size car got 14mpg. With new technologies, we are near 30mpg. It's a matter not if, but when.
3) Tune-up, synthetic oil, tire inflation. You all know what to do here.
4) Keep the car clutter to a minimum.
