Yeah, we were wondering whether you were going to catch those math
errors!

LOL!

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-I only round cents to the nearest 2 digits & mileage to the
nearest single digit & still feel secure

On Aug 3, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote:

> ---- Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
>> I just returned to Edmond, OK from a drive to Spokane, Washington
>> and Glacier National Park in my 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon GL
>> Campmobile .  It has a waterboxer rebuild (110K miles at time of
>> installation) and now has 155K miles.
>>
>> I averaged 18.76 mpg (much worse coming than going, around 18 mpg
>> coming home, over 20 going, also around 18 in driving around
>> Spokane, northern Idaho, and Glacier NP).  Best leg, from Raton,
>> NM, to Castle Rock, CO, 254 miles, just over 22 mpg.  Worst leg,
>> from Grass Range, MT to Ranchester, WY, 204 miles, barely over 17
>> mpg.  Wind made a really large difference.  Total miles for the
>> trip = 5807.  Prices for gas ranged from $2.559 per gallon at a
>> Flying J in Caspar, WY to $3.039 at a Cenex in West Glacier, MT.
>> Average price paid = $2.8378 per gallon.
>
> I made a series of calculation errors in the above figures.  The
> actual numbers (recalculated several times to be sure) look a little
> better.  The overall mileage was 19.10 mpg rather than 18.76 (still
> less than the 20.56 on a similar trip last year), and the average
> price per gallon using total dollars and total gallons (rather than
> averaging the prices) was $2.767 rather than $2.8378.  Sorry for the
> errors.  The total mileage exceeds by about 1000 miles what it would
> be if we had not done a bit of driving around Spokane, and some
> exploring in northern Idaho that we did not do last year (when we
> went south into Nevada and visited Great Basin NP rather than
> Glacier).