Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!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 21:38:20 GMT Lines: 66 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 xI93MLQ5jU/HsQYdlfSo4w6FCH9jCzuV5LtHdQ7QKECt7bH9Sn Cancel-Lock: sha1:1suRVX+KNX2H4saJsN1HCfL6PnI= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:78956 On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:22:57 -0400, Alan Browne wrote: > On 2015-08-25 17:20, Lloyd Parsons wrote: >> 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. :) > > You're absolutely delusional if you believe you're getting more than 1% > mileage improvement from premium gas. bullshit. It isn't just the premium gas, it is the new tune I put in it. You know you can do that, right? -- Lloyd