Aye, but the point is not the price of petrol - it's the inconvenience (and in the US, with vast distances to cover - maybe danger) of having to fill up so frequently.


>Back in 1953...
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>>What? a range of just 120 miles urban is OK?
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>>>Yeh, but at .20 a gallon it was ok... :o) I remember gas costing 29 cents a gallon at the Kickapoo station in Portage, Wi when I was 11. My parents drove Rambler station wagons and always (even back then) found the cheapest gas in town.
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>>>>>>From my favorite engineering college!
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>>>>>>http://cbs5.com/californiawire/CA-BRF--CenCoast-Supe_k_n_0ca--/resources_news_html
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>>>>>>If this becomes the norm then we will be paying about $250 a gallon for gasoline! :)
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>>>>>From my alma mater:
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>>>>>http://www.supermileage.ca/
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>>>>>3,145 mpg!
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>>>>Very nice. My 1953 Oldsmobile got 6 mpg in the city. :)