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RE: Gas Prices - 8/22/2005 9:19:09 PM

Youtalkingtome

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

I agree with a lot of what you're saying about Ford. It's a complicated problem, and health insurance has been a major headache for them. But gas mileage must have something to do with their problems. A Honda Accord gets about ten miles to the gallon more than a Ford Taurus (and it's a more comfortable car, too).

And I honestly do not believe that you get 51 miles to the gallon in your Ford Taurus driving 65-67 mph. The government doesn't test those vehicles at 90 mph. If you're really telling the truth, I think you should submit it to the Guiness Book of World Records or something, because your 1999 Taurus outperforms a VW Golf.

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ORIGINAL: Youtalkingtome

I don't care what the Government says!!
I work with a guy that has a 2001 Chevy/Geo/Toyota it has a four cylinder engine and my car has a V6 engine.He said he gets 34 MPG and his wife has a 2004 Neon four cylinder engine and she gets 40 MPG.But they can't get the mileage I do because they can't drive that slow. Those were his words! He knows how I drive and I know how they drive.I set the cruise at 65-67 and they drive 70-90 mph on the highway.That is why they can't get the good mileage I do.
I could go on and on with examples.Most of the time poor gas mileage is because of someones poor driving habits.It is called being in control of your self.

As far as Ford gasping, that doesn't have much to do with gas mileage.Yes,it does play a part. It has more to do with the cost of doing business in the present state of our country.And cheap labor and lack of enviromental laws in other countries.Most of the parts have been made in other countries for years and just assembled here.In recent years all or most manafacturers have been moving out of the country to do business.But because of stock holder greed they build less expencive cars but the price keeps going up.So now they are all over priced junk.It doesn't matter what brand.Most of the parts are made in the same factories and assembled in another factory.
Now that they have been having the big sales in the past couple months they sold out of the 2005s before the 2006s came in.Price is the reason.They are all hurting including the foreign name brands.

The problem with todays cars and gas mileage is the engine is built wrong for gas mileage.Todays engines are high rpm horsepower engines.For good gas mileage we need low rpm torque engines.They put in overdrive transmissions that lower the rpms at highway speeds.When they do this it puts the engine in the torque rpm range.But they are a low torque engine.Torque is what accelerates the car and horsepower is what maintains speed.Torque is produced at low rpm and horsepower at high rpm.The closer you can get the horsepower and torque range together the better gas mileage you will get.And a low rpm torque engine will get better mileage in the city than a rpm horsepower engine.
I could make a big old Cadilac engine from the 70s get 30mpg.It is not hard to do.They got about 16-20 mpg back then in a big car.
I am asking you a serious question now.
Do you know why a 2005 car or truck pollutes less than say something from the 1970s?
I will not give you a hard time about this.But you are an enviromentalist so I am asking you.Again I will not give you a hard time.
Do you know why Diesel fuel costs as much or more than gasoline?
Anyone can answer.But it is directed to Lordandmaster.

< Message edited by Youtalkingtome -- 8/22/2005 9:21:55 PM >

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