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Oldengineer
Now if I could just get the oil light to go out!
Here is approximate mileage based on speed:
70 MPH = 20 MPG
65 MPH = 26 MPG
60 MPH = 28 MPG
With gas approaching $3.50/gallon, cutting down on the highway speed makes a huge difference. Look at this example, based on my 13 gallon tank:
Driving 70 MPH - 20 MPG * 13 gallons = 260 miles/tank
Driving 60 MPH - 28 MPG * 13 gallons = 364 miles/tank
Figure $3.20/gallon for gas (my last fillup), here is a per mile cost:
Gas Cost - $3.20 * 13 gallons = $41.60
70 MPH - $41.60/260 miles = $.16/mile
60 MPH - $41.60/364 miles = $.115/mile
To drive the same 364 miles at 70 MPH, it costs me $58.24. That's another $16.64 I give away to the oil companies.
To take this to another extreme, $16.64/week * 50 weeks of commuting = $832 per year I potentially waste. I can think of many other ways to spend this money.
My sebring (2006) gets 20mpg at 85mph and about 28mpg at 60, so if you are doing 60mph on a 360 mile trip and I zoom by you at 85mph with my radar detector on lookout, you arrive in 6 hours, and I arrive a full 1 hour and 45 minutes ahead of you, which means any extra fillups and even lunches are free time for me and I still get to my destination ahead of you.
You say you save $830 a year by going just a little slower, and this is no savings to brush off. But by the same math: that's 52 minutes per gastank\week, times 50 tanks\weeks, means you have wasted 43.3 hours of your life just by going 10mph slower.
How much is two full days of your life worth per year?
Just food for thought!
Total of 3433 miles with with 108.9 gallons of gas. Came to 31.5 mpg. Pretty good. I'd estimate 90% hiway, 10% city - averaging 70mph on the hiway.
The gas cost was about double of what the car cost to rent. Lowest pirce I got was $3.179 in northern Ohio, highest was $3.809 on the Mass Pike.
Overall, the Sebring was a nice car, solid, no squeaks or rattles, good mpg, good handling (but dead steering feel), quiet on the road except for some wind noise. Used the radio input jack to listen to the last harry potter audio book - unabridged, which made the miles fly by. Passed through some beautiful country in a great time of year.
55mph is the best gas mileage on this car, i get around 35mpg
but if i speed it up to 70, i only get around 25-28mpg, still good.