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The real secret hidden in plain sight are the facts that the Wall Street Journal along with EIA.gov assert as well as confirm that the United States uses only 8/9% of the worlds oil. Yet for a figurative as well as literal host of reasons, they/we are able to control WORLD oil markets.
In my mind, the only question that I have is how close to zero % usage they can come & still maintain that kind of control.?
During the last POTUS administration, " the (multi states) oil frackers were ( used ) not unlike the ECONOMIC equivalent of Seal Team # 6 of economic oil policy! (Aka, KA, take few prisoners.) The proof was in the pudding with gas @ a low of $1.89? per gal. I thought @ the time that was interesting for the professed policy of getting gasoline to $10 a gallon?
"8" gasoline cars getting "40" mpg? (Two are TDI's) aka, by count of my toes and the envelop sez ... 6!
Civic, probably the most popular recognizable in the bunch, normally gets about 36 mpg (fuelly.com 2014 Civic sedan) Another tries to get you to buy a 1.0 L engine!? Toyota schedules one to be shot in the economic head.
Gee, did Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway have anything to do with this "gasoline" list?
I guess they take "LALA Land too seriously? Alright, take #42.....I'd like to thank the academy....
On a more serious note, here is Bloomberg's on the VW's profitability contrast with other EU companies! ? https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-02-27/volkswagen-s-7-billion-euro-man?ref=yfp
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a5617/new-2016-cafe-standards/
So, ... we want to go from a supposedly " 2016 real world" 26 mpg (allegedly) to ... (2016) 34.1 mpg? Or was Jack Nicholson right?
(TMI: 12 Touareg TDI, 33 mpg/14 GLK 250 BT, 36 mpg) vs
2012 Acura MDX 19 mpg
(as you can see, it operates at roughly 44% + discount.)
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The cabin is whisper-quiet though. It makes even the Passat seem noisy in comparison.
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It's mind numbing to think the owners manual, now "S" are OVER 650 pages +!?
I'd take 2 to 4 hours to go over both manual/s & IN SEAT wanderings around the "intuitive" controls! Plug in your battery trickle charger. You'll consume gobs of power! I'm sure you wouldn't want to be responsible for injuring yourself or somebody else while trying to figure any to ALL this out, while driving.
Many also do not know ( massive)use of electrical power drops mpg also!
So for example auto headlights minus 0 X mpg!?
I clocked 8 hours during on lot before/after sales & back end sales support. All hours given by factory trained & specific Touareg TDI salespersons.
A nit for the general audience: if better fuel mileage is a priority, AND one does not want or need to use the 3rd row of seats a good to majority of the time, R/R as needed. My guess is a minimum of 1 mpg better. Another (rtfm) is that engine/8 speed AT drive train is optimized for/at 2,000 to 2,200 rpm = 80 mph-85 mph (1,750 rpm max torque) . (I'm guessing)
New tires, assuming "gentle break in" take app 500 to 800 miles to settle in. I'd start with 3 psi over placard to max TP 51 psi!
Wheels above 17/18 in seem not as friendly to higher mpg. My guesses, are (minus) 1-3 mpg+. Mine, as I've posted before: 2,100 rp= app 81 mph/36-38 mpg/18 in oem wheels. I'm fine with 33 mpg.
Let me be the first to hit the fat (who cares gasser mpg) panic button!?
Gasoline anyone?
It seems each Euro-Car fan group has its biases.
I think MBs mostly have an "old people" or slow driver image to the peanut gallery, which is fine with me. I've had a couple AMG cars, and with the crumbling crowded roads around here, the fun isn't really there anymore.
The Prius-Camry crowd definitely is the recipient of stereotype abuse, fairly or not.
I don't know about the gussied up statement. I would have to drive a Touareg to make a proper comparison. My guess? Yep, just gussied up. My wife seems to love to complain about this car, and at first it was just annoying. However, as time goes on, I see her point on a lot of things. Frankly, the thoughtfulness of this car's design is quite lacking compared with the Passat.
Still a GREAT driving car, though. And, we went through a blizzard last night on I-15, which it handled beautifully even in just cheap-o all-season tires. It was a long, stressful slog, but still somewhat enjoyable and was able to go 40-50 most of the time despite the heavy, wind-driven snow and accumulating slush. I haven't been in a storm like that in a long while.
I've read that experts predict snow for NorCA's ski season could go to first or second week of July 2017.
Coming up to South Lake Tahoe, CA (yesterday, early to late afternoon, 5 March 2017) were requirements for snow chains @ two control points & exercises in deep deep winter driving @ 18 F degrees. There were more tow trucks loitering, big rigs, CHP & more heavy duty earth moving trucks that I've seen in a good while. The other more main highway (interstate 80) remains closed.
We were lucky enough on the way up to do a sort of "Texas two-step" dancing" with a series of two teams of two snow plows. We got the huge blasts of the horns & it took us a while to get "the drift". When we did (dah) , I gave the "head'em up, move'em out" signal & 4 plows pulled out to hit the oncoming traffic lanes & we were off to the races. Parts of the trek up were pretty close to 25 to 100 foot visibility. There were a number of parts of the highway (50) that literally fell away (whole lanes) for a host of reasons. 4 lane highways with super wide & double pull off lanes looked like a swap meet parking lot on Sunday afternoon with free admission & parking.
It's snowing (Siri, 6.224 ft) as I post this. Heavenly (ski resort) only reports 20 in overnight, predicted was 12in to 24 in. Winds gusts as high as 60 mph. Only 49.5 ft of snow has fallen for the season.
The Oroville damned dam disaster indicates water levels could be close to 200% (& could possibly exceed) of "normal" levels. They are truly frightened of subsequent " real" storms. This is not counting the extra 200% of normal Sierra snow PACK, later on mid year. In the meantime, not to be outdone, the Eco conservative environmental policies continue to MASSIVELY waste water: in full view of now the nation to see.
Slow diesel news day!
ULSD $2.69, RUG $ 2.53, PUG $2.87, COSTCO, Folsom, CA
I would not be unhappy with that kind of mileage. The Q7 is heavier than the Touareg with the same engine. You are above the average of 22.81 MPG on Gas Buddy. At least 10 MPG better than the gas version. Have fun that is a fine SUV.
Bullish for gasoline & diesel? https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/03/05/u-s-ethanol-policy-set-for-big-change/#9d86b60555dc
New, new standards? Or is it politics as usual? Gotta laugh at the logic below?
..." In July, the EPA estimated the fleet would average 50.8-52.6 mpg in 2025 because Americans were buying more SUVs and trucks. It had until April 2018 to decide whether the standards were feasible under a "midterm review," but moved up its decision to a week before President Barack Obama left office."...
EPA's diesel gate? Let's see,... IF security procedures are now adequate after the herds of horses have had unfettered escape access out of the barns & gates for @ least 9 years.... I'm helping....
Bigger mpg fish to fry? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-08/u-s-2016-vehicles-seen-trailing-fuel-goals-boosting-skepticism?ref=yfp
I am very pleased with the fuel economy. We had one tank over 30 mpg after we got off the higher speed roads. But, the thing is drinking DEF like no tomorrow. A full tank is supposed to last 10,000 miles, but we added 3.5 gallons during our trip (total of 5,000 miles), and it was screaming for more by the time we were approaching Fairbanks today.
Then, it died about forty miles out of town. Just boom, splat, dead. We had to have it flat-bedded into town. Not entirely pleased with it at this point. LOL
Hopefully I can get the shop to give me an initial diagnosis sooner rather than later, as I was supposed to take it down to Palmer next weekend to haul furniture back. With our 2010 Forester being killed last week, this one being down means I'll have to rent something for that haul.
I think it is in shock from being out of its home, and went to sleep in protest. It spent years ambling along the gallery malls and mcmansion orchards of Texas suburban sprawl, right? This is a bit much for it to take in all at once
The DEF low indicator came on about 100 miles out of Alaska, saying "1,500 miles left," and by three hundred miles later, it was saying we only had 500 miles left. Not sure what is up with that stuff, but it is way too much of a PITA to fill it for it to be wanting more every couple thousand miles.
Happily, it started right up for us yesterday morning after an overnight in Teslin (Yukon) with morning temperatures about ten degrees below zero.
TMI
Unless you had it topped from known point (i.e., purchase,last filling), who knows what was in (left in) the DEF tank? Since you went @ least 5,000 miles, I know from my own experiences , you used at LEAST one 2.5 gallons container.
To me, the best course of action: top it up. It will then be the verified "full" baseline. Then, getting calculations should be more accurate.
So, light comes on about a thousand miles into the trip and says I have 1,500 miles left. Within 400 miles, it was saying I was down to 50 miles. I added a gallon. A thousand miles later, it is saying the same thing, with a similarly accelerated countdown from the 1,500 mile mark. I added 2.5 gallons. 2,000 miles later, back to the countdown.
Maybe that's normal, but I'm thinking something is off with it. If it wasn't such a pain to access the filler, I wouldn't care nearly as much, but having to use a wrench to open the darned thing makes for one grumpy owner when it is asking for more every couple of days.
Manual says that when depleted, the vehicle will not restart after being shut off. It will not fail (e.g., "shut down") during operation, however. As such, I do not think these two items are related.
Overall, the bloom is withered. Hopefully this doesn't turn into a major issue or, if it is an HPFP failure, battle with Audi.
Time will tell. For now, we're down to one car.
My wife and I were just having a philosophical discussion about vehicles earlier today. She'd like us to take this opportunity to downsize (again). Maybe it would work, at times, but I still have raw memories about how complicated things used to be when we had one car on which we put 20K+ miles per year.
One of the tops on the list. Seller desperate to get rid of it. It was her father's home and she lives in OR.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3221-Thousandaire-Blvd-Pahrump-NV-89061/62709999_zpid/
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Living in Nevada, can be an acquired taste, especially away from more recognizable urban & ski areas. Aka, been there, done that. (way less urban areas)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax NV's individual/corp are nada.
Over asking house prices are still pretty common, in this CA area. .
That garage brings up a good point - collections are usually a burden for those who receive them. Whether it be (diesel) cars, art pottery, stamps etc - let it go before the time comes, or let people start the process when the horizon is in view.
I'm waiting for both the 2009 & 2012 VW TDI's processes. I've got 2 zero monthly car payments: assuming I've some need for the/each car/s., till each's conclusion. On buyback (non taxable- no IRS F 1099), the cost per mile driven (depreciation: frozen 09/2015 KBB prices & various penalties) will almost be ridiculous in comparison to most other cars ( normalized vehicles. This doesn't even include IRS section 179, & other business treatments. 20/20 hindsight confirms I should have bought no other vehicles than "affected" VW TDI's.
So, live far longer to be a burden to @ least the governments one chooses, or that chooses you. God bless America!
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3331-Winchester-Ave-Pahrump-NV-89048/62707217_zpid/
Many Eco conservatives have never come to grips with the fact that even many to much of city housing requires cars!
That line about city housing requiring cars bit is hilarious in Seattle. The city still has an iffy transit system, with housing prices so high that it requires two incomes (and often parental aid, nah I built it myself!) to pay the mortgage. Many developers build shoebox condos or cardboard townhouses with one spot per unit, sometimes less. This creates a parking disaster on residential streets, often in area blighted by denser residential development where the lucky earlier buyers get crammed in.
I'm not sure what you mean by ..."it's just silly to let all that torque go to waste"?...
Better all that hilarious mess in Seattle, WA, than say... more down here! San Francisco, CA can be another example.
The developers are constrained/prohibited by many, many, many factors (chiefly regulations & massive mandated overheads) from building anything other than the "shoe box condos or cardboard townhouses with one spot per unit, sometimes less".
I was reading about one per unit $26,000 mandate to the local school distri, just to be able to build the project.
So many of the SF people are moving up here now, and have been for a few years. At least SF has some transit.
I have no sympathy for developers or the real estate industry in general. They aren't building cheap crowded dwellings with no parking via onerous regulations, they are doing it because it maximizes profit (with massive subsidies from the feds and local governments). The key here is too many people, not enough land. It's not like sore winner red areas with infinite amounts of scrub land in which to build orchards of stapled together cardboard tract housing. If anything, the regulations are helping the FIRE heroes by not requiring parking, allowing the mortgage deduction to live on, not vetting offshore (laundered) money (the other elephant in the room here here that nobody will touch), et al.
Too much of GM's wrong products?
That's app 2.159 M over (gassers) for cited OEM's ? Projected sales are 17.5 M in other articles. So that's app 12.4% over production!?
And you guys want more niche models that no one wants/will buy?