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Reality check for gas guzzlers
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My V8 - an LS1 5.7 litre 6 speed manual is used almost exclusively for
regular interstate trips with four on-boad and
a trunk-load of heavy gear.


Without trying, according to the trip computer it regularly returns 8.9

litres per 100 Kms on ULP on these trips, a figure many 4 cylinder cars

with 2-up can't match. The best I have seen is 8.1litres/100 kms but
that was all downhill.


I would probably get even better figues if I didn't have to come off
cruise control and then reset because some dawdling dimwit in a
rice-burner is hogging the right (passing) - lane and won't move over
until he sees the whites of your eyes.


Makin, if LPG ever becomes an acceptable alternative in huge numbers,
it too will become expensive.


Or Ethanol? Look at BRAZIL. Cars are running there on Ethanol only. VW

has a model out


The Government in not about to see it's share of petrol products
revenue diminish, so whatever is used in viable numbers as an
alternative to petroleum will suffer the same profiteering fat