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my 65 comet with a 289 V8 2bbl isn't really bad on gas...but it's worse than mmost newer cars

Gas guzzlers? Take any American SUV and you have your answer

Ski-doos, outboard motors and Sea-doos are very hard on gas. Also, the new F-150 is a gasohaulic, same with the Hummer H2.

See what makes a gas guzzler is a big enginethats more than 4 or 5 cylinders. Anything 6-cyl and above is a gas chugger. I depends on the size and weight of the vehicles.

Its not always the size of the vehical, but how & where its drove.  Just about any vehical can get good mileage depending on the situation.  I currently drive an 89 Ford Bronco II 4x4 2.9 V6.  Its averaging around 14 miles to the gallon.  But, living in a small town with to many stop signs I use a lot more fuel since all I do is stop and go every few feet.  Now on a highway its a different story.  I take a trip to my brother-in-law's house over in Dayton, Ohio a couple times a year.  The route I take is one mostly spent on one highway with only 1 small town you have to stop in.  Also smooth fairly strait road.  On those trips I average somewhere between 25-28 miles to the gallon.  It all comes down to how you drive.  In town I cant get up to speed before stopping again, but on a long highway I get up to speed and then barely have my foot on the pedal.  My old F-150 was the same way...about 12-14 mpg in town but 20-25 mpg on the highway.

But there are some...like the Hummers that are just expensive gas hogs and people who can afford to drive them are generaly your wealthier citizens who dont care when gas is 3 bucks a gallon

Anymore they advertise all these new cars that get 30 mpg...but then they highway.  So in town your probably not going to get near that

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I dream of paying 3 bucks a gallon 

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elite marksman wrote on Dec 29^th, 2006 at 8:12pm:

Where did you read that? It might be true for some parts of Europe but certainly not the UK which has the highest fuel taxes in Europe. LOL

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Karl Benz invented the first true motor car in Germany. http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html

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Maybe true in Holland - or China.

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They test drove a Hummer H2 on Top Gear a couple of years ago. Clarkson was quite excited that the onboard computer was telling him that he was doing 1 mile per gallon. It did 2 mpg going off road.

As usual you cant compare the US prices to the world.  $3 here is rediculously high.  Right now its $2.21 and thats to high.  I remember when it was 95 cents   When I started driving it was running $1.25 range.

Its more a matter of country style.  When I was in Taiwan we mostly got around by either scooter or MRT lines.  I think in the 3 weeks I only rode in a car 3 times (excluding the trip around the island)...2 of those were from and to the airport   Here in little North Manchester its a whole other story.  Little town of a whopping 3.5 square miles and a lot of that is roads or open space.  Theres only nesesities to be found here and they are usualy much higher priced.  Nearest Walmarts ect are roughly 20 miles away.  Work for me is 18 miles one way.  Unlike a big city or most other countries...the only way to really get anywhere is to drive.  And with working on farms I have to haul different things just about every day so need a truck.  Most of the US is tied to the vehical due to it being the only transportation for where you need to go.  Big vehicals are becoming more common then ever...but most people are just for style and not for practical use.  I can see a big SUV for the big family...but not for a single person who has no need for it.

Googled my town...(finally, high def for my area )  Most of my time is spent a couple miles north where its 95% fields...for those that say..."theres more than corn in Indiana"...yah...there is...but its soy beans   But...with most of our surounding area like this.  Its not that easy to get around without driving some type of vehical.  So...we have a right to b*^@# when the gas prices are high 

expat wrote on Dec 30^th, 2006 at 8:58am:

Here in Cornwall the nearest bus stop is over a mile away. Then the bus, at best, only comes once an hour. And it'll probably be late and it will probably get lost, break down or catch fire before you get to your destination.

It's all very well but you've only experienced public transport in a single fairly major european city. Go into the country side to the smaller towns and villages and you will wonder why they even try and bother. I'm sure in Washington DC, New York and San Fransisco the public transport is also second to none.