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| Tweet Topic Started: May 17 2007, 05:00 PM (579 Views) | |
| kenny | May 17 2007, 05:00 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Ohhhh! The Thrill of rearending Crash. ![]() . . . I didn't think it was possible but I just topped my all-time record. I just filled up. It took me a while to find the gas station since it’s been so long. I just went 698.3 miles on 10.352 gallons of gas. My new full-tank record is 67.5 MPG! ![]() Last record of 67.0 was set back in July 2006 when it was HOT. Now my lifetime average over 28 tanks is 63.4 MPG ![]() Must do Happy Dance
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| CrashTest | May 17 2007, 05:04 PM Post #2 |
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Pisa-Carp
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| kenny | May 17 2007, 05:09 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Time to Go Down On A Hummer! : Best website ever. So many clever sayings. http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_040/index.php ![]() GULP GULP GULP GULP CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG - BURP!
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| Riley | May 17 2007, 06:16 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Kenny - how long has it been since you last filled up? |
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| 1hp | May 17 2007, 06:21 PM Post #5 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Frankly it's starting to look like he's had too much already. :lol: |
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| kenny | May 17 2007, 06:21 PM Post #6 |
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18 days, or 698.3 miles, ago. Way back on April 29th. ![]() http://www.greenhybrid.com/compare/mileage/car/1900.html Move your cursor over the word, "more". |
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| apple | May 17 2007, 06:30 PM Post #7 |
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one of the angels
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so Kenny - how do you get your electricity? does the car generate it? is it from a plug in the wall? is the electricity from a nuclear power plant? coal fired plant? hydroelectric? has your electric bill gone up? -apple, who is thinking a hybrid would be an excellent idea if electricty were cheap. |
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| kenny | May 17 2007, 06:40 PM Post #8 |
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apple you don't plug them in. Never. You couldn't plug it in if you wanted to. There is no plug. When you use the brakes the wheels are instantly connected to a generator under the hood. The rotating wheels turns the generator to make electricity. (it also helps you slow down so your brake pads last longer) The electricity it makes during braking is sent to a battery pack behind the back seat. A moment later when the light turns green it uses that electricity to power an electric motor under the hood which helps you accelerate. So a hybrid just converts the kinetic energy of a ton of moving metal into electricity instead of wasting it by turning it into heat in the brake pads like regular cars. You never plug a hybrid car in. All you have to do is put gas in it (seldom) and drive it like a regular car. |
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| Riley | May 17 2007, 06:41 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The way you build it up, you would have thought you hadn't filled up since February. :lol: I mean, if you forget where the gas station is after 18 days, maybe fuel consumption shouldn't be your biggest concern. |
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| kenny | May 17 2007, 06:42 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Crash fills up his Dummer every other day. |
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| JBryan | May 17 2007, 06:43 PM Post #11 |
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Kenny has to stop at the gas station to pump some back. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| apple | May 17 2007, 07:17 PM Post #12 |
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so you are essentially braking with a dynamo? |
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| apple | May 17 2007, 07:19 PM Post #13 |
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"So a hybrid just converts the kinetic energy of a ton of moving metal into electricity instead of wasting it by turning it into heat in the brake pads like regular cars" kind of a funny but great explanation |
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| kenny | May 17 2007, 07:29 PM Post #14 |
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Girls know about dynamos? ![]() I guess your husband must have told you about them. ![]() You can punch me in the arm June 21 in NY. (but not too hard.) |
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| sue | May 17 2007, 07:56 PM Post #15 |
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:lol: |
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| Red Rice | May 17 2007, 08:23 PM Post #16 |
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Nope. I'm not going to say it. Too obvious. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| CrashTest | May 17 2007, 08:28 PM Post #17 |
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Pisa-Carp
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hm |
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| LadyElton | May 17 2007, 09:53 PM Post #18 |
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Fulla-Carp
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That is so gay.
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| apple | May 18 2007, 03:37 AM Post #19 |
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one of the angels
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apple knows about all things - she only sometimes pretends to be stupid for comedic effect |
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| LWpianistin | May 18 2007, 05:53 AM Post #20 |
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I saw the first pic and thought it would be something about cricket....what a let down. |
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| ***musical princess*** | May 18 2007, 05:54 AM Post #21 |
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me too x |
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| kenny | May 18 2007, 05:56 AM Post #22 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Sorry to let you guys down. ![]() I know, I'm a gaspig; I'll try for better MPG next tank. |
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| The 89th Key | May 18 2007, 06:08 AM Post #23 |
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Kenny that MPG really is impressive! |
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| kenny | May 18 2007, 06:29 AM Post #24 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Thank you. When I obsess on something . . . watch out. |
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| Klaus | May 18 2007, 08:14 AM Post #25 |
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Currently I am driving a rental car which also gets approximately 70 MPG: A Smart Diesel. I wonder whether they are sold in the US, too. They are small but cool cars.
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