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42 gallons is one heck of a gas tank even allowing for small US gallons (it's about 35 proper (imperial) gallons). My car holds a maximum of 70 litres (18.5 US or 15.4 Imperial gallons). My most expensive fill to date cost me £98.50 (around 160USD), which just about lasts me for one week of commuting to the office, provided I don't go anywhere else.
Most of that cost is tax and duty and our road network now bears a closer resemblence to a lunar landscape than to essential infrastructure of an advanced nation. At least I never wear my tyres out these days, they usually get trashed by potholes and have to be replaced long before they reach the end of their natural life. Not that I get bitter and twisted about it
Have fun,
Ian.
Do not argue with idiots; they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Cogito ergo sum - Descartes
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
Time-travel back to Year 1966. TJK buys his very first car...a brand new Triumph 6-cyl. Vitesse. Location London. Petrol cost five shillings a gallon...four gallons for a £ Sterling (US$ 2.80 before Harold Wilson's devaluation to $2.40). Tankful was 8 gal./£2.0s.0d./$5.60. Range per tankful: 250 miles. That was about 125 miles per £.
Today my tankful is max. 60 liters or just over 13 gallons/58.5 liters, which today costs Eur 88.00/£Stg.77.50. Range 400 miles. That is 5.2 miles per £. !!!
Multiplication factor: 1966: (8 Gal/36 liters cost £2. 2011: 36 liters costs Eur 54.00/£48.00) = Twenty Four in 45 years.
Suppose I can drive for another dozen years....I can expect motoring costs in that time to multiply a further 6 (SIX) times ???
Uncle Al wrote:
( - I used to think that $.32 for a gallon of gas was expensive.)
Of course a dozen eggs, at that time probably only cost a dime.
Nope, they were $.29 a dozen, bread was $.29 a 1 1/4 lb loaf.
If it was on 'sale' the bread was 10 loaves for a $1.00. Milk was $.89
a gallon for 2%. We could get by on $10.00 a week for groceries and
have 8-10 bags of stuff each time we were at the store.
This coming June we'll be married 39 years.
Boy how time does flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Uncle Al
Kilted Organist/Musician
Grand Musician of the Grand Lodge, I.O.O.F. of Texas 2008-2025
When asked 'Why the Kilt?'
I respond-The why is F.T.H.O.I. (For The H--- Of It)
When I started driving, 1960, I could find gas for $.19 a gallon. My dad told me that I if used his car, the old one, I wasn't allowed to drive the new one that only he and my mother drove, I had to put some gas in it. What I didn't know was that he meant "once in a while" but it didn't HAVE to be every time I used it. But I scrounged up what money I could and put in $1 or $2 worth every time I used, nights or weekends. That meant that I was adding 4-8 gals of fuel each week.
One day over dinner he was bragging, to mom mostly, that his good driving skills had increased the economy of his old work car. He was now getting 25-30 miles per gallon instead of the 10-15 miles he used to get. That was when I mentioned to him that I was putting gas in the tank almost every time I drove anywhere.
Boy did his bubble pop!
He was beside himself, because he was even bragging about his new gas millage to friends at work.
I was one of the funny moments in my life as a teeneager.
That was very amusing, Dennis, about your Dad & his fuel economy.
I didn't begin buying fuel until my Dad lent me his old Ford 6-cyl. Zephyr for a season to tow the boats for my College Rowing Club. That was a baptism by fire, as the thing gave less than 20 M.P. (Imperial) G. when towing, and I ended up having a row with our Club treasurer, who didn't quite understand, over towing fuel expenses. We were all very young, then.
As for your 'lunar landscape', Ian, I thought all the roads 'on the Bucks Station' (as they announce at HRR) were very well maintained. Over here on this little Island of Saints and Scullers all our long-distance routes are new, so no problem there, but most of the little secondary roads took a hell of a clout from last Winter's very severe frosts and will take some time to sort out. The boggy half mile off the main drag down to my shack could only be described as 'Passable with Care', even though they have filled in the actual potholes....badly. The 21st Century method here is to deploy three guys with a cart, some sticky macadam and a shovel, position two guys, one either end with flags directing traffic while the third guy shovels tar & gravel into the holes, leaving the traffic to do the rolling.....Jobs for the boys !
I was amused just recently, prior to Her Majesty's visit to our National Stud, just down the road from me, they removed all the speed humps locally, so she would have a smooth ride !!
- I used to think that $.32 for a gallon of gas was expensive.)
