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Originally Posted by ScottC
So by your reasoning we should by gas by the gallon? Sure, so we have to make more trips to the gas station...a place none of us go unless we have to, by doing this we are WASTING gas by having to refill more oftern. You asked is your logic flawed? Yes it is. Not to mention the impact you have on your engine when running it near empty. Your gas tank has sedimentary impurities in it. By running on the ragged edge you will clog your filters, and injectors. I do not know how many of you know about EFI, but my other hobby is high horsepower Mustangs, and I mean 1,000RWHP turbo street and drag cars. THis is somthing I know quite a bit about. an EFI high pressure fuel system needs atleat a 1/8 tank to insure you do not run lean and have detonation problems. Bushes comment it the stupidest thing I have ever heard, he is truly a moron and I regret voting for him.
ANd no detonation does not mean what you think it is, Detonation sounds like marbles jingling around in your heads. Some call it pinging.
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My logic may be flawed but not by the points you have shown. I never mentioned buying gas by "the gallon". I simply stated that it probably doesn't make sense to have full tanks of gas sitting in your driveway. Driving with a quarter of a tank is NOT running it near empty. For every additional one hundred pounds of weight in your vehicle you reduce your fuel mileage by approximately one percent. A gallon of gas weighs about 8.66 pounds. The difference in weight between a quarter of tank and a full tank is somewhere around 91 lbs on avg thus increasing fuel economy by .91 %. Might not be much on an individual basis but overall it is a huge number of gallons nation wide. More trips to the gas station? Yep. Does it add any additional mileage? Nope. How many gas stations do you drive by everyday? Therefore you are not wasting gas on additional trips to a gas station (unless you are a moron who is going to make special trips just to buy gas). Bottom line, sitting back and demanding low gas prices while trying to blame a single individual on high gas prices and refusing to change your driving habits is flawed logic. The one truly effective method we have of controlling gas prices is changing our driving and purchasing habits. The increased mileage economy of driving with less gas / weight in your vehicle coupled with the transfer of supply from your driveway to gas station and refineries seems to be a more effective strategy than stomping around chanting "Bush sucks".