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Old 12-15-2010, 03:55 PM   #27 (permalink)
NHRABill
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Tahoe - '95 Chevrolet Tahoe LT
90 day: 13.22 mpg (US)

SRX - '04 Cadillac SRX AWD

XL - '05 Harley Davidson Sportster XL
90 day: 49.97 mpg (US)

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I see many people get it and some don't. After fully reading this thread I see and have experienced a bias from both High performance and Eco people. Going fast and high performance were always something that I loved to do for many years but I did it on the cheap and netted better perfomance than many who just opened their wallets wide.

Then I started comming here a place where I thought I could learn something and maybe improve my current vehicles efficiencey on the cheap. I have taken flak from members here and members on the High performance side I even was blasted on a full size GM truck site when inquiring about good road manner tires for my truck.

The online attitude that MANY people have just sucks. Ecomodding sites started because they had no place to go in other forums but a few people here do the same as the people they ran from.

So where do I go? do I continually get blasted for driving a big truck 6,000 miles a year by a hypermiller that drives 40,000 miles? I didn't even post my latest car purchase last Friday because I know it would get criticized.

Well I needed to rant after reading this i do appreciate the many great tips and helpfull members on this site that is why I stick around. I want to do my own EV project one day soon when life frees up the time and I continue to make small changes in my life to be more efficient. Working together with others will show much better results than drawing a line. Ask anyone on that LS1 forum if they want to learn how to make 500hp and get 30mpg they will line up for the opportunity.
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