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Gas Hog Cars, same phenomenon as boats
"Eddie" wrote in message
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On 6 Nov 2005 08:35:42 -0800, wrote:
JIMinFL wrote:
Are you sure or are you just guessing?
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My 5mpg and 100 passengers is an educated guesstimate, represented as
such.
Don't worry, I wouldn't think of starting a war over it. :-)
I figure a Greyhound bus is probably geared a little higher than a
typical semi tractor, and 25 rows of seats, four across, would give you
100 passenger capacity.
But even if my guesstimate is wrong and even if a Greyhound bus only
realized 2MPG while carrying 50 passengers, that's still 100 passenger
miles per gallon. I think you could probably beat that per passenger
mile efficiency if you put enough people (several hundred or more) on a
train- but you can't get hardly anybody to ride the train these days
except some daily commuters in the NE.
I did a 2,220 mile trip this past summer in my 15-passenger V-10 Ford
Club Wagon. There were only 10 of us, 4 adults and 6 grandchildren.
I averaged 13 mpg.
I tried figuring out what that equated to in passenger miles per
gallon. But got lost.
Besides, those little grandkids refused to share in the gas costs.
Eddie
130 passenger miles per gallon. Did the grandkids share in the ice-cream
budget?
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