Posts Tagged ‘MPG’

Jerry in da Burgh!

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

It’s so much fun being in Pittsburgh. Driving in city streets are scary and weird and stuff. And driving here was the most boring 12 hours ever. I listened to about 6 episodes of Free Talk Live on the way here. By about 10 hours in, I was listening but not paying much attention. They were just talking about the same things over and over again. Like how much can you really listen to the same conversations about privatizing the post office or roads or how L. Neil Smith is kind of a jack ass or how Ian is a bit condescending towards people. I tried listening to the Sunday Internet only show and I got bored with it. FTl is all about Ian and Mark. They are Free Talk Live.

As for my car, all the highway miles made my car very fuel efficient. My car got about 36 MPG the last two fill ups. Most of the time it gets between 27 and 32. In an effort to defeat boredom, I kept checking it while driving. With a 11 gallon tank, I would be impressed when I got to the half way point and I had driven about 190 or 200 miles because usually it’ll be about 150 or 160 miles.

Also, one of my comments on YouTube is a top rated comment on the video of “Nuking the Fridge”. Check it out.

I just noticed this, but Futurama is a lot funnier when you have a bit to drink.

Chevy Volt vs. Hyundai Accent.

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

So there’s a bunch of ads on Hulu right now that says the Chevy Volt gets 230 MPG. Early reports say that the cost of the car is $40,000, then there’s the $7,500 government deduction. Meaning that the cost of the car is about $32,500, add in sales tax and all that other stuff it’ll probably be back up to $33,000. My car was $16,000. My Hyundai gets about 33 MPG, combination city and highway and I drive about 5,500 miles a year. Now, taking all of that in to account, the average gas cost per year is $501, while the Volt would be about $72 per year. That’s a difference of $429 per year. So, subtracting the cost of Hyundai from the Volt is about $17,000. $17,000 divided by $429 is about 40 years. So if I bought a new one next year it would take 40 years or until my 70th birthday to be worth the cost of buying a Volt…