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Old 09-09-2012, 10:48 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Location: North Eastern Missouri
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OD - '05 Ford Econoline
90 day: 18.64 mpg (US)

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90 day: 49.71 mpg (US)

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A Goat is all that you could get....LOL What is the story there.


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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
Kind of like most of my first cars (we'll forget the GTO, as it's what I could get, not what I wanted): Sprite, Volvo (the old '60s one that looked like a miniature '40s Ford), one of the first Toyota pickups... But I was never an average person. Most people back then had either the muscle cars or the family land barges, like for instance the '59 Chevy. (Family had one when I was a kid, and every time I looked at it, I was thinking how much weight I could take off with just a cutting torch. I guess ecomodding starts early :-)) Those of us who drove, or wanted to drive, small cars were the oddballs, just as we are now.

That lawn mower? Well, for some people that dirty 2-cycle B&S mower may have morphed into today's Honda-powered riding mower, but I wonder about comparative fuel use & emissions per acre of grass. And I'll also note that others of us have electric mowers these days.
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