2004-2005 Acura TL gas
06-02-2012, 06:14 PM
#41
David_Dude
Oil companies are cashing in.
We joke around about how BP's making their money back that they had to pay in all those claims from the oil spill on the gulf coast. Anywho I've always noticed how gas shoots up, but slowly falls back down.
Also even though we're using less other countries are using more. In the end it's all about money.
We joke around about how BP's making their money back that they had to pay in all those claims from the oil spill on the gulf coast. Anywho I've always noticed how gas shoots up, but slowly falls back down.Also even though we're using less other countries are using more. In the end it's all about money.
06-04-2012, 09:44 AM
#42
Keep Right Except to Pass
As others have said, it generally varies wildly depending on the particular type of driving you're doing and how much of your time is spent in slow or stopped traffic.
I assume the OP can convert these figures using miles to kilometres. I don't know how you convert mpg to L/100 km, but I assume there's a website somewhere that can do that for you.
Out on the highway I routinely get 31 mpg if I do ALL highway driving (meaning predominantly in sixth gear, using the cruise control if possible, with minimal stops). I've averaged 31 mpg with an average speed of 71 mph in the past.
Local driving is way more of a crapshoot and isn't really susceptible to an easy answer just because there are too many variables in terms of traffic and even in terms of whether you hit the red lights at rush hour or at other times of day if they vary the light timing in your area the way they do on some roads I use. I've been as low as 18 mpg in local driving and as high as 22 mpg. My average speed in local driving is usually around 22 to 25 mph simply because in Northern Virginia there's no way to avoid wasting time and gas sitting at a lot of red lights.
Farthest DISTANCE I've ever gone on a tank was about 455 miles, again entirely on either Interstates or Interstate look-alikes. I probably could have gone further but when it started reading low I was in the middle of nowhere in an unfamiliar area and so I decided it was best not to take chances just for the sake of seeing how far I could stretch it.
93 octane gas here is running around $3.90 a gallon (though the next time I fill up I have at least an 80¢ per gallon discount with grocery-store points, so I think I'll have my wife pull her car up to the same pump so we can fill both cars with the discount).
I assume the OP can convert these figures using miles to kilometres. I don't know how you convert mpg to L/100 km, but I assume there's a website somewhere that can do that for you.
Out on the highway I routinely get 31 mpg if I do ALL highway driving (meaning predominantly in sixth gear, using the cruise control if possible, with minimal stops). I've averaged 31 mpg with an average speed of 71 mph in the past.
Local driving is way more of a crapshoot and isn't really susceptible to an easy answer just because there are too many variables in terms of traffic and even in terms of whether you hit the red lights at rush hour or at other times of day if they vary the light timing in your area the way they do on some roads I use. I've been as low as 18 mpg in local driving and as high as 22 mpg. My average speed in local driving is usually around 22 to 25 mph simply because in Northern Virginia there's no way to avoid wasting time and gas sitting at a lot of red lights.
Farthest DISTANCE I've ever gone on a tank was about 455 miles, again entirely on either Interstates or Interstate look-alikes. I probably could have gone further but when it started reading low I was in the middle of nowhere in an unfamiliar area and so I decided it was best not to take chances just for the sake of seeing how far I could stretch it.
93 octane gas here is running around $3.90 a gallon (though the next time I fill up I have at least an 80¢ per gallon discount with grocery-store points, so I think I'll have my wife pull her car up to the same pump so we can fill both cars with the discount).
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