Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Happiness at 65

So you're sitting there saying to yourself "It's been a while since Dan posted some long boring story about gas mileage or saving 50 cents on his electric bill". Well, I've got a treat for you.
I drove to Pennsylvania and back this weekend for Xmas. I filled up when I left town, and decided to keep it at 65, partly because Smokey was hiding behind every little hill and tree. I kept it up the whole way there and back.
For the entire 390-odd mile trip thru the hills and mountains of W. Va and PA, I averaged 34.5mpg. Big deal. Well, what that meant was I'd burned a little over 11 gallons. Which left me with plenty of gas in the 17 gallon tank to drive to work this week, and probably part of next week. Nice.

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