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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!gatech!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Cruise line dumping
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.083446.11361@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 08:34:46 GMT
- References: <92198.174045MEK104@psuvm.psu.edu> <rHR-9+_@engin.umich.edu>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
- Lines: 15
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- In article <rHR-9+_@engin.umich.edu> blagdon@engin.umich.edu (Kenneth James Clark ) writes:
- >
- >I ALWAYS drive the speed limit (on those rare occasions when I drive).
- >Saves mongo on the gas bill (and pisses off the rest of the speeding
- >motorists to boot).
-
- Have you actually *tested* this savings? Or are you just mindlessly
- repeating a claim you were told? I've kept careful records and find
- that one of my vehicles gets better gas mileage at a speed higher
- than the national limit and the other doesn't vary more than 3%
- ten miles either side of the limit, though it's mileage peak is around
- 47 MPH. Three percent is $0.60 a week. I wouldn't call that "mongo" by
- any stretch of the imagination.
-
- Gary
-