Hummers! They do GPM don't they!? It's even more amazing that you see them over here, and yet more that there's a new RH drive version coming over for the UK market.

A Hummer must be a bummer if you're on the wrong side for toll booths and/or multi-storey car park exit m/cs.

>I don't know how many people drove those old gas hogs across country back in 1953 though :o) I know some salesman did. I find it amazing that people are driving hummers! I drove one in the army but we had our own tankers available to refuel :o)
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>>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.
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>>>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. :)