my slow lumbering diesel westy gets 30-ish, my TDI Jetta got 51 point
something two weeks ago on a road trip to Carson City, NV from Phoenix.
pulled 620 miles out of it before it got down to about a 1/4 tank.

just FWIW.... sometimes it pays to be slow.

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "EMZ" <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, 24 February, 2000 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: What is the price of gasoline in your town??

> Hi Dave,
>        Mated the motor, and trans. last night, finally. Looks great.
> Only problem I have is, I'm using and 1986 Syncro trans. witch requires
> the one year only special short starter, and its bad. I'll be ripping
> in to the starter soon.
>        Gas here is $1.36/gal. I'm also diligently looking for a used
> Golf, as my friends just reported 36.5 MPG! Our new (1990) Jetta has to
> many goodies like auto, air, power everything, to get  that kind of
> milage,  but I expect atleast 27 MPG's out of it.
>
>
>             Eric                   86-VW4x4
>             vw4x4@fyi.net          72-240z
>             Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
>
>
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, David Marshall wrote:
>
> > This past week gasoline prices jumped to an all time high in Quesnel
$0.659
> > per liter of 87 octane fuel and $0.759 for 91 octane fuel, Diesel is
> > $0.549.  I know this is cheaper than other parts of Canada, but I would
not
> > mind knowing the price of fuel in other parts of the world.
> >
> > To make this the same for everyone, let use the list majority of US
Dollars
> > and US Gallons... I know I will get flamed for this but hey...
> >
> > Also let use the following formulas so we are all taking the same thing.
> >
> > 3.785 liters = 1 US gallon (liquid)
> > 1.45 Canadian Dollars = 1.00 US Dollars
> > 0.689 US Dollars = 1.00 CAD
> >
> > So in Quesnel
> >
> > 1 US gallon 87 octane = $1.81 USD
> > 1 US gallon 91 octane = $1.98 USD
> > 1 US gallon Diesel = $1.43 USD
> >
> > Filling my Syncro with 87 Octane costs almost $50 Canadian / $35 USD!
> >
> >
> >
> > --   David Marshall -                    - Quesnel, BC, Canada   --
> > --    78 VW Rabbit, 80 VW Caddy, 84 VW Westie, 85 VW Cabriolet   --
> > --       87 Audi 5000 Quattro, 88 2.0L VW Syncro Double Cab      --
> > -- David's Volkswagen Home Page        http://www.volkswagen.org --
> > -- Fast Forward Autobahn Sport Tuning  http://www.fastforward.ca --
> > -- david@volkswagen.org (pmail) or vanagon@volkswagen.org (list) --
> >
>