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Gas Hog Cars, same phenomenon as boats
JIMinFL wrote: Are you sure or are you just guessing? wrote in message oups.com... 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. |
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Leftist Hogs
Skipper wrote: wrote: From a fuel consumption/passenger mile standpoint, a fully loaded Greyhound Bus hast to be one of the most efficient vehicles on the road. If the GHB gets 5 mpg (just a guess) but has 100 people aboard that's the same efficiency as each one of those people driving a single occupancy vehicle and realizing 500 miles/ gallon. And while one is on such a leftist bent, one might wonder if it woulden be more *efficient* for one (1) governess to raise 100 children than one hundred pairs of parents? -- Skipper Efficiency is when an entire gaggle of KKKKK (kookie kansas Ku-Klux-Klaners) share a single brain. Tragedy is when one of the batch misses his turn to use it. Should you run into anybody out your way for whom that sentiment would be appropriate, pass it along, please. |
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Snippy on the booze again
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wrote: From a fuel consumption/passenger mile standpoint, a fully loaded Greyhound Bus hast to be one of the most efficient vehicles on the road. If the GHB gets 5 mpg (just a guess) but has 100 people aboard that's the same efficiency as each one of those people driving a single occupancy vehicle and realizing 500 miles/ gallon. And while one is on such a leftist bent, one might wonder if it woulden be more *efficient* for one (1) governess to raise 100 children than one hundred pairs of parents? Pain medication wore off already Snippy? That's okay, just take it in liquid form! jps |
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Leftist Hogs
On 7 Nov 2005 17:00:54 -0800, wrote:
Skipper wrote: wrote: From a fuel consumption/passenger mile standpoint, a fully loaded Greyhound Bus hast to be one of the most efficient vehicles on the road. If the GHB gets 5 mpg (just a guess) but has 100 people aboard that's the same efficiency as each one of those people driving a single occupancy vehicle and realizing 500 miles/ gallon. And while one is on such a leftist bent, one might wonder if it woulden be more *efficient* for one (1) governess to raise 100 children than one hundred pairs of parents? -- Skipper Efficiency is when an entire gaggle of KKKKK (kookie kansas Ku-Klux-Klaners) share a single brain. Tragedy is when one of the batch misses his turn to use it. Should you run into anybody out your way for whom that sentiment would be appropriate, pass it along, please. I thought you'd stopped that. -- John H "It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!" Hypocrital Liberal |
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Gas Hog Cars, same phenomenon as boats
Interestingly, I drive a stock Dodge Ram pickup with a diesel that gets
17 mpg around town and 23 mpg highway. And the tree huggers rant about that too. We have no shortage of gas. We have greedy oil companies like Exxon who pays no federal taxes, and yet charges us dearly to make their 9.92 billion dollar quarterly net profit. |
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Leftist Hogs
I think this is the point where Chuck says "Who me?, I didn't say anything".
"John H." wrote in message ... On 7 Nov 2005 17:00:54 -0800, wrote: Skipper wrote: wrote: From a fuel consumption/passenger mile standpoint, a fully loaded Greyhound Bus hast to be one of the most efficient vehicles on the road. If the GHB gets 5 mpg (just a guess) but has 100 people aboard that's the same efficiency as each one of those people driving a single occupancy vehicle and realizing 500 miles/ gallon. And while one is on such a leftist bent, one might wonder if it woulden be more *efficient* for one (1) governess to raise 100 children than one hundred pairs of parents? -- Skipper Efficiency is when an entire gaggle of KKKKK (kookie kansas Ku-Klux-Klaners) share a single brain. Tragedy is when one of the batch misses his turn to use it. Should you run into anybody out your way for whom that sentiment would be appropriate, pass it along, please. I thought you'd stopped that. -- John H "It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!" Hypocrital Liberal |
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Gas Hog Cars, same phenomenon as boats
"NewsHog" wrote in message ... Interestingly, I drive a stock Dodge Ram pickup with a diesel that gets 17 mpg around town and 23 mpg highway. And the tree huggers rant about that too. We have no shortage of gas. We have greedy oil companies like Exxon who pays no federal taxes, and yet charges us dearly to make their 9.92 billion dollar quarterly net profit. 2003 Exxon had a $11 billion tax bill to fed, state, local governments. |
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Gas Hog Cars, same phenomenon as boats
"Eddie" wrote in message ... On 6 Nov 2005 08:35:42 -0800, wrote: JIMinFL wrote: Are you sure or are you just guessing? wrote in message oups.com... 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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