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Snofarmer,
This is just plain common sense.
If you wait until the tank is empty to refill, it will cost you more money at the pump than if you filled it when the tank reads 1/2 full.
What part of that don't you understand?
Bob.
Snofarmer,
This is just plain common sense.
If you wait until the tank is empty to refill, it will cost you more money at the pump than if you filled it when the tank reads 1/2 full.
What part of that don't you understand?
Bob.
Bob,
but you have to go to the pump more often, don't you?
Less weight is another good one. I should ditch the heavy spare tire of my Expedition
Snofarmer,
This is just plain common sense.
If you wait until the tank is empty to refill, it will cost you more money at the pump than if you filled it when the tank reads 1/2 full.
What part of that don't you understand?
Bob.
Bob, does the volume knob on your stereo go to 11?
Snofarmer,
This is just plain common sense.
If you wait until the tank is empty to refill, it will cost you more money at the pump than if you filled it when the tank reads 1/2 full.
What part of that don't you understand?
Bob.
All of it.
So, If I had 1/2 a tank of 0.56cents a gal gas from when I was a kid I would have saved millions?
You know because it never went below 1/2 a tank.
So, If I had 1/2 a tank of 0.56cents a gal gas from when I was a kid I would have saved millions?
You know because it never went below 1/2 a tank.
Ok, so let's put this in terms even you can understand.
Last Saturday you filled your tank, and it cost you $40.00.
Now today is Wednesday, and your gauge reads 1/2 tank.
Now, you have the option to pull into a station and fill it up for $20.00, or you can wait till the tank is empty, and pay another $40.00
By re-filling at 1/2 tank, you saved $20.00.
If you never let the tank get below 1/2 tank, you are ahead $20.00 every time you fill up, and with the price of gas escalating practically by the minute, filling up at 1/2 tank saves you money.
Bob.
Ok, so let's put this in terms even you can understand.
Last Saturday you filled your tank, and it cost you $40.00.
Now today is Wednesday, and your gauge reads 1/2 tank.
Now, you have the option to pull into a station and fill it up for $20.00, or you can wait till the tank is empty, and pay another $40.00
By re-filling at 1/2 tank, you saved $20.00.
If you never let the tank get below 1/2 tank, you are ahead $20.00 every time you fill up, and with the price of gas escalating practically by the minute, filling up at 1/2 tank saves you money.
Bob.
Sat- $40
Wed- $20
Sun- $20
____________
$80
Sat- $40
Sun- $40
________
$80
This has to be about the most back-asswards math I've ever heard...and I'm an engineer!!
All you're doing is stopping an extra day to fill up versus waiting until it's closer to empty. You aren't saving ANYTHING.
By your math, I should buy groceries three times a week at $20/ each day instead of buying groceries once a week for $60. It's the same amount.
Yes I disagree.
I am old school, before 02 sensors, and EFI.
Yes, and those days include "venting" gas caps rather than closed evaporative canister purge systems for the fuel tank.
Which means that under normal operating conditions, the "air pressure" in the fuel tank was the same as the barometric pressure. There was no forcing of fuel into a fuel pump ... where the output pressure was limited to a range acceptable to the float needle/seat design for the carburetor in the car. A high barometric pressure didn't give a corresponding higher fuel level in the float bowl.
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