Confused over loss of MPG
02-11-2012, 06:26 AM
#21
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I just read a article where it said due to the current economy gas sales are down. For the first time in a long time, we are now exporting more than we are bringing in. So if nothing has changed, it seems drilling more wells will not benefit us in any way. Seems the oil companies will just get richer selling it to other countries.
And for the bad MPG, I have always heard it has to do with them cutting the gas with additives.
And for the bad MPG, I have always heard it has to do with them cutting the gas with additives.
Last edited by DRAGUL; 02-11-2012 at 06:30 AM.
02-11-2012, 10:43 AM
#22
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^That's what I had read a while back. We are supplying other countries who refuse to do business with OPEC instead. Which is why we aren't really independent though we could be.
My gas mileage is okay. Maybe its purer in NJ.
My gas mileage is okay. Maybe its purer in NJ.
02-11-2012, 11:03 AM
#23
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Amen... This is why I recently bought my ar-15, i figured obama would try to reinstate the assault weapons ban that Clinton started... I'm in the process of getting my pistol permit too, i figure its only going to get harder from here to get one...
EDIT:
Yes, sorry OP, i figured my bad gas mileage to "winter gas" as well. Check your airfilter just in case and clean your MAF sensor too. The MAF can look clean but remove it and clean it with MAF cleaner (or brake parts cleaner, its all the same. im sure someone can verify this)
EDIT:
Yes, sorry OP, i figured my bad gas mileage to "winter gas" as well. Check your airfilter just in case and clean your MAF sensor too. The MAF can look clean but remove it and clean it with MAF cleaner (or brake parts cleaner, its all the same. im sure someone can verify this)
Last edited by stangalator; 02-11-2012 at 11:06 AM.
02-11-2012, 09:14 PM
#24
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Yup, I think Cliffy nailed it with the ethanol content. Typically, your fuel mileage drops a measurable amount with higher ethanol content used in the winter months.
Also spot on about leveraging the oil resources we possess instead of letting other reap the revenue from what we could do ourselves. Also agree with buying from Canada vs the middle-eastern countries that hate us. Reducing energy dependence requires us to use what we have while we work on developing new sources.
Also spot on about leveraging the oil resources we possess instead of letting other reap the revenue from what we could do ourselves. Also agree with buying from Canada vs the middle-eastern countries that hate us. Reducing energy dependence requires us to use what we have while we work on developing new sources.
02-17-2012, 12:30 PM
#25
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E-10 or E-15 fuels, I.e. crap-*** gasoline, can cost you 5% to 15% in MPG because of it's lower energy content.
If you look at the signs on the pump you will see that it says "May contain up to xx% ethanol". The key word being "may", when it "does" your mpg tanks (no pun intended)--and you will never know when this happens.
The solution is to vote the leftist socialist bastards out, start drilling and using our own fossil fuels, and telling the rag-heads (a lousy 13% of our total petroleum sources) to "stuff it"...
If you look at the signs on the pump you will see that it says "May contain up to xx% ethanol". The key word being "may", when it "does" your mpg tanks (no pun intended)--and you will never know when this happens.
The solution is to vote the leftist socialist bastards out, start drilling and using our own fossil fuels, and telling the rag-heads (a lousy 13% of our total petroleum sources) to "stuff it"...
http://www.generalaviationnews.com/2...l-e10-mandate/
02-17-2012, 01:06 PM
#26
I am at a stage in my life where I quite honestly don't give a rat's back end about most anything, anymore.
We have spent ourselves into bankruptcy pursuing every wonderful great, noble and virtuous thing we could imagine. The wealth is gone and all that is left is parasites and hosts, and guess what? The hosts have been drained of all they have and are dying off.
Want to see our future? Look at the current situation in Greece and multiply it by 1000 or more. When the pansy "living at home with mommy and daddy" generation realise it's all coming apart the "Occupy Whatever" silliness will look like a girl scout camp-out.
We all want to believe "it can't happen here"; but guess what it can.
If you do not have guns get some, if you do buy ammunition...
We have spent ourselves into bankruptcy pursuing every wonderful great, noble and virtuous thing we could imagine. The wealth is gone and all that is left is parasites and hosts, and guess what? The hosts have been drained of all they have and are dying off.
Want to see our future? Look at the current situation in Greece and multiply it by 1000 or more. When the pansy "living at home with mommy and daddy" generation realise it's all coming apart the "Occupy Whatever" silliness will look like a girl scout camp-out.
We all want to believe "it can't happen here"; but guess what it can.
If you do not have guns get some, if you do buy ammunition...
02-17-2012, 09:27 PM
#28
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I changed my spark plugs and fuel filter last weekend and my mileage went up 10 percent. Also switched to no ethanol gasoline due to the carbon I found on the plugs and the crap I found in the filter. Older engines were not made for ethanol based fuel.
02-17-2012, 09:43 PM
#29
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Also carbon deposits on the plugs are from short trips and/or the plugs being too cold a heat range for your driving style--ethanol (much as it makes me vomit) does not do that.
02-18-2012, 06:53 PM
#30
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I am at a stage in my life where I quite honestly don't give a rat's back end about most anything, anymore.
We have spent ourselves into bankruptcy pursuing every wonderful great, noble and virtuous thing we could imagine. The wealth is gone and all that is left is parasites and hosts, and guess what? The hosts have been drained of all they have and are dying off.
Want to see our future? Look at the current situation in Greece and multiply it by 1000 or more. When the pansy "living at home with mommy and daddy" generation realise it's all coming apart the "Occupy Whatever" silliness will look like a girl scout camp-out.
We all want to believe "it can't happen here"; but guess what it can.
If you do not have guns get some, if you do buy ammunition...
We have spent ourselves into bankruptcy pursuing every wonderful great, noble and virtuous thing we could imagine. The wealth is gone and all that is left is parasites and hosts, and guess what? The hosts have been drained of all they have and are dying off.
Want to see our future? Look at the current situation in Greece and multiply it by 1000 or more. When the pansy "living at home with mommy and daddy" generation realise it's all coming apart the "Occupy Whatever" silliness will look like a girl scout camp-out.
We all want to believe "it can't happen here"; but guess what it can.
If you do not have guns get some, if you do buy ammunition...
