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 21:20:13 GMT Lines: 56 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 tJUTqppnA9yHuxklb8r75AzrkpiwXICXRr7ExQSKLZg6HQNJxr Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gwm66ODMPPo8eVxsFfwAf1DrAS0= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:78954 On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:36:53 -0400, Alan Browne wrote: > On 2015-08-25 13:36, Lloyd Parsons wrote: >> 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. > > You would have to run through about 10 tanks of gas of each kind in > similar conditions to establish the difference. Which would be < 1%. OK, you do that crap, I"ll continue to enjoy driving my car and not spending much on gas while doing it. :) -- Lloyd