Boating Factoid I found today....
 

Yea, that sounds like BS. They probably use a heavy fuel oil like bunker C,
and the whole fuel mileage thing sounds way off.

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Keith
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
"Jim Hollenback" wrote in message
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Larry W4CSC ) wrote:
: The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
: that it burns.

I find that really, really hard to beleive. Lets see, 5280 feet per
mile, that is 10,560 gallons per mile. For a trip across the Atlantic
of, what ?, 3600 miles?, that is 38,016,000 gallons. At 6 pounds or
so per gallon, that is 114,048 *tons* of fuel. Another way to look
at it, for 38,000,000 gallons of fuel at, say $0.90 per gallon, that is
around $34,200,000 to fuel that beast. If you carry 2000 passenagers,
that is $17,000 per passenger just for the fuel. Naw, someone is
jerking your chain Larry.


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: I didn't even know it was diesel powered......???

Who says you can't burn diesel in boilers?

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Jim Hollenback, NK6L
my opinion.