Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Parsons Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: [OT] I won! Date: 25 Aug 2015 17:36:52 GMT Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <210820151811270086%michelle@michelle.org> <55d7e7f4$0$41734$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com> <210820152057277693%michelle@michelle.org> <55d7f5cb$0$44541$c3e8da3$66d3cc2f@news.astraweb.com> <210820152122136851%michelle@michelle.org> <220820151456553972%michelle@michelle.org> <55d9235b$0$32297$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.com> <220820152133130729%michelle@michelle.org> <55d9e463$0$16729$c3e8da3$76a7c58f@news.astraweb.com> <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-hsd5xSbW9KHP@localhost> <55dbc69b$0$29691$c3e8da3$dbd57e7@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net nIjPC9qVEtwAC0eBNvZBjQTYEO6Ewn+NQNhwAFiEEwezTdQUZj Cancel-Lock: sha1:cuQBDlDdfJUKuWHJKiE4vWTfmFM= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:78944 On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:47:02 -0400, Alan Browne wrote: > On 2015-08-24 23:26, Lloyd Parsons wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 21:36:26 -0400, JF Mezei wrote: >> >>> On 15-08-24 21:10, Jolly Roger wrote: >>> >>>> To save a whopping ~$24 in gas per year, I suppose... >>> >>> Average tank size about 45 litres. >>> >>> Current average price in Montréal: >>> >>> Regular: $1.27 Premium: $1.41 >>> (source stat canada: >>>> http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/econ152f- >> eng.htm >>> >>> >>> Fill up costs difference: $6.30 >>> >>> Unless you fill up only 4 times per year, you will end up spending >>> more than $24 for premium in a year. >> >> >> I use premium and put 10 gallons of gas in or thereabouts every other >> month. So each fillup costs me $3 more or $18/year. Of course a trip >> or two can change that a bit. >> But I have a performance tune on my Encore that requires at least 91 >> octane. I get better performance overall and a little better mileage. >> worth it to me. > > The difference in mileage is less than 1%. which doesn't change a thing and is incorrect. My highway mileage with regular and standard tune is dead on 33. With the Power Tune and Premium gas it is about 35.2 or about a 6% improvement. But the performance is much better. -- Lloyd