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MrCadillac
We each drive a '94 Buick Roadmaster Estate wagon with the LT1 V-8 motor (mine has 155K miles, my wife's only 60K miles). On the road we average 20-21mpg ...that's driving with a raw egg between foot and accelerator pedal! Also, we run on the cheapest gas (87 octane).
As gas prices go up, we just drive LESS; of course, being retired, we are in a position to do that!
Americans won't give up their bad habits (like driving big cars with lousy air penetration factors) until gas hits $5 a gallon ...at which time it will have topped $10 a gallon in Europe.
Then we'll all move back into the cities and/or develop effective public transport systems such as exist already in many European capitals.
But before that, we need a new President as well as affordable health care and decent retirement pension plans.
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As gas prices go up, we just drive LESS; of course, being retired, we are in a position to do that!
Americans won't give up their bad habits (like driving big cars with lousy air penetration factors) until gas hits $5 a gallon ...at which time it will have topped $10 a gallon in Europe.
Then we'll all move back into the cities and/or develop effective public transport systems such as exist already in many European capitals.
But before that, we need a new President as well as affordable health care and decent retirement pension plans.
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Just out of curiousity how good is your gas mileage? ...