Gunner Asch wrote in
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:42:00 GMT, "RAMü"
wrote:

Too_Many_Tools wrote in
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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



This particular station was well up the coast - right in the middle of
the Big Sur. G