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Old 09-06-2012, 03:09 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
But you are doing that for a proportionately shorter length of time, so - assuming your engine &c is equally efficient at all loads & RPMs - you should wind up using exactly the same amount of fuel.
...theorectically, that would be true, but nothing is 100% efficient, so accumulating 'losses' cause our realworld results to be otherwise!
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