Poor gas mileage

[6of36]

$1.00 a gallon and cars w power till govt stepped in about 1974

What are you talking about? Even in 1970, a 440 6 pack got 375 HP. A current 5.7 gets 395 HP. In 2020 gas was less than $1.00.

 

[Scram1500]

What are you talking about? Even in 1970, a 440 6 pack got 375 HP. A current 5.7 gets 395 HP. In 2020 gas was less than $1.00.

Sometimes it's 395. That's up to the electronic committee. First VVT has to make sure all the valves know what their marching orders are. Then the transmission has to decide if it wants to transfer that to the wheels or just recirculate back into the slush. Bringing up the rear is traction control and pesky stability control to hammer everything back into place.

 

[BowDown]

What was the outside temp? I drop 4-5 mpg from 40 degrees down to sub zero temps. Anything above 40 doesn’t seem to have any affect on gas mileage whatsoever.

Same with mine, 40° or less and I struggle to get past 16 mpg in the city. I loose about 2mpg in those temps

 

[tech97elec]

What are you talking about? Even in 1970, a 440 6 pack got 375 HP. A current 5.7 gets 395 HP. In 2020 gas was less than $1.00.

What am i talking about? If you were driving then, you just knew. Heres just one article:

NJDEP

 

[6of36]

What am i talking about? If you were driving then, you just knew. Heres just one article:

NJDEP

Your statement said power before 1974, todays engines have more power. You said $1 a gallon before 1974. 2020 it was still less than a dollar.

 

[Idahoktm]

Your statement said power before 1974, todays engines have more power. You said $1 a gallon before 1974. 2020 it was still less than a dollar.

The average price of gas per gallon in the US was about $2.20 in 2020. There were a few regional markets that had lower gas prices in the early part of 2020, but making a statement that gas was below a dollar a gallon in 2020 is misleading.

 

[Jako]

I have some good laughs
The average price of gas per gallon in the US was about $2.20 in 2020. There were a few regional markets that had lower gas prices in the early part of 2020, but making a statement that gas was below a dollar a gallon in 2020 is misleading.

Lawyers say: suppressio veri, which is Latin for suppressing truth, and is considered a false statement.
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Is there a word for when a statement is technically true but misleading?

The statement that inspired the question was "Newton was wrong [about the laws that govern movement]". Although some exceptions have been found to Newton's laws since he discovered them and thus the

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Seems like a lot of that is going around today.
January inflation was down. True, it was 6.4 down from 9 in July.

 

[theblet]

Seems like a lot of that is going around today.
January inflation was down. True, it was 6.4 down from 9 in July.

It may be down some, but we’ve got a ways to go to be back to the great economy we had pre 2020

 

[6of36]

The average price of gas per gallon in the US was about $2.20 in 2020. There were a few regional markets that had lower gas prices in the early part of 2020, but making a statement that gas was below a dollar a gallon in 2020 is misleading.

Nothing misleading. I was paying less than a dollar

 

[Idahoktm]

Nothing misleading. I was paying less than a dollar

You didn't read what I posted.

 

[6of36]

You didn't read what I posted.

I did read what you posted. But the fact is it was a dollar and less back in 2020. The picture I posted has a picture of 88 cents a gallon.

 

[Dewey]

I did read what you posted. But the fact is it was a dollar and less back in 2020. The picture I posted has a picture of 88 cents a gallon.

I paid .85 a gallon for E85 many years ago during a special promotion when regular gas was $3.00 a gallon. Not exactly a fair comparison. Cheapest gas here in 2020 was about $1.80 a gallon.

 

[ferraiolo1]

Yeah all the one brand gas stations in my state had 88 on sale for $.99 for a while.


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[6of36]

I paid .85 a gallon for E85 many years ago during a special promotion when regular gas was $3.00 a gallon. Not exactly a fair comparison. Cheapest gas here in 2020 was about $1.80 a gallon.

That was at sam's club. 87 octane regular unleaded. they are cheaper than most, but all gas around me in metro Detroit was $1.

 

[Trooper4]

Nothing misleading. I was paying less than a dollar

You may have been in some dark corner of the universe, but that was hardly the national average. Quit looking through a pinhole, and look at the big picture. In the Pacific Coastal states it was twice that, and in some places more.
Blanket statements are such a PITA.

 

[theblet]

Haven’t seen $1 gas in like 20 years

 

[ferraiolo1]

You may have been in some dark corner of the universe, but that was hardly the national average. Quit looking through a pinhole, and look at the big picture. In the Pacific Coastal states it was twice that, and in some places more.
Blanket statements are such a PITA.

Sure it may be a bit of an outlier. Just how ca high prices are an outlier. But Pa and surrounding states were doing a special on 88 fuel for $0.99. Not exactly a dark corner of the universe.


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[theblet]

Sure it may be a bit of an outlier. Just how ca high prices are an outlier. But Pa and surrounding states were doing a special on 88 fuel for $0.99. Not exactly a dark corner of the universe.


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Having a special is nice, just not a good representation of the country as a whole. 88 is probably cheaper than regular 87 tho.

 

[Idahoktm]

There is absolutely no dispute that gas was sold for less than a dollar per gallon in some markets a few years ago. The misleading part was 6of36 comparing gas prices in 1974 to those in 2020. In 1974, you could buy a gallon of gas for less than $1 per gallon anywhere in the country, all year long. In 2020? Not so much.

 

[6of36]

You may have been in some dark corner of the universe, but that was hardly the national average. Quit looking through a pinhole, and look at the big picture. In the Pacific Coastal states it was twice that, and in some places more.
Blanket statements are such a PITA.

Pacific states would be dark hole in the universe. Everywhere in the country is cheaper. Southern states are usually cheaper than here.