Re: Bicycles, trucks, trains

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

According to
http:\\cartalk.cars.com/Info/testdrive/techspecs/volvo-850-wagon-1997.htm
l,
the 1997 volvo 850 wagon has a fuel capacity of 19.3 galons. The EPA City
milage is 19 mi/gal and the EPA highway milage is 26 mi/gal. Thus, if the
car goes 300 miles in the city or 400 miles on the higway, it uses about
the same amount of fuel.

Herb Gottlieb in New York City
(Where travel the same distance on the Long Island expressway often uses
more fuel than travel in midtown Manhattan.  The Long island expressway
has been called the longest parking lot in the USA because of traffic
jams every day.)

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:50:46 -0400 Lois Breur Krause <krause@CLEMSON.EDU>
writes:
> > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:23:54 -0500 Clarence Bennett
> <bennett@OAKLAND.EDU>
> > writes:
> > > I wish I could figure out why my Volvo wagon usually needs fuel
> after
> > > about  300 miles when I stay near home, but when I drive across
> the
> > > country, over  the Rockies, with the air cooler running, and
> going 70
> > mph, it goes
> > > as much  as 400 miles on a tankful.
> >
> > Is it possible that your trip over the Rockies is mostly down
> hill??>
>
> come on guys, you get better gas mileage under "highway" conditions.
>  the
> greatest inefficiency is changing speed, which is avoided in steady
> speed
> conditions, regardless (relatively) of what that speed is.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>
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