On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:42:00 GMT, "RAM³"
wrote:

Too_Many_Tools wrote in news:a397d161-f18d-4496-
:

You can bet gas will be more than $5.


In some areas of the Peoples' Republik of Kalipornia it's already over
$6.30/gallon.

When you buy gas at a marina, or at a golf course gas station..expect
it to be almost double the price of everywhere else.

Its been that way since gas became the #1 fuel.

Gas in California for 87 octane, averages about $3.75 at the moment. A
bit cheaper at AM-PM and so forth.


Every pound costs you gas mileage.


Not so.

The weight is only a minor factor and that only when proceeding from a dead
stop. Once underway, weight, per se, has little, if any, effect upon fuel
economy.

Brake linings are a different matter... GRIN

Any solid vertical surface will cost you gass mileage.


If it's taller than the height of the tow vehicle's body: airflow over the
tow vehicle's body will continue over the trailer's top if it's lower or
equal in height to the rear of the tow vehicle.

An exception occurs when there's a stiff tailwind: on one 400-mile stretch
with my fifth-wheel [12'9" tall x 8.5" wide x 37' 10" long and 7 tons
weight] my fuel economy was the same as it would have been if I hadn't been
towing thanks to a 60 MPH tailwind. grin



"[L]iberals are afraid to state what they truly believe in, for to do so
would result in even less votes than they currently receive. Their
methodology is to lie about their real agenda in the hopes of regaining
power, at which point they will do whatever they damn well please. The
problem is they have concealed and obfuscated for so long that, as a group,
they themselves are no longer sure of their goals. They are a collection of
wild-eyed splinter groups, all holding a grab-bag of dreams and wishes. Some
want a Socialist, secular-humanist state, others the repeal of the Second
Amendment. Some want same sex/different species marriage, others want voting
rights for trees, fish, coal and bugs. Some want cradle to grave care and
complete subservience to the government nanny state, others want a culture
that walks in lockstep and speaks only with intonations of political
correctness. I view the American liberals in much the same way I view the
competing factions of Islamic
fundamentalists. The latter hate each other to the core, and only join
forces to attack the US or Israel. The former hate themselves to the core,
and only join forces to attack George Bush and conservatives." --Ron Marr