Thread: GPH vs MPG
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Default GPH vs MPG

OK here's a little topic for discussion

If you're going from point A to point B it seems you'd want to know how
much gas you're going to use. And that leads, by definition, to MPG (or
in the case of boats, GPM).

Most fuel curves, however, are for GPH...how many gallons per hour a
boat burns. That makes sense if consumption....MPG...is relatively flat
(which for many boats, once they're on plane, it, relatively speaking,
is).

So why GPH instead of MPG? Also, the value that seems to make the MOST
sense is G/MPH...that is, how much gas you burn at a certain speed, per
hour. That combines most of the info you'd need to get from point A to
B if the consumption curve is flat.

Just curious...