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From: Stanmore
Originally Posted by C7BLE,May 20 2008, 11:19 AM
on a related note I saw deisel at 1.26 per litre yesterday.
Petrol was 1.10
I must get a calculator out and work out if you actually do get better fuel "economy" with deisel these days.
I suspect unless you are driving a deisel lupo, the answer is an emphatic no
Petrol was 1.10
I must get a calculator out and work out if you actually do get better fuel "economy" with deisel these days.
I suspect unless you are driving a deisel lupo, the answer is an emphatic no
Here's some calculations
----cost/l-----l/100km-----cost/100km-----km-----cost/distance--------difference
---D-----P-------D---P-----------D-----P--------------------D-----------P
1.26--1.10---5.9--7.9-----7.43---8.69-----8000-----594.72--695.20-----100.48
1.26--1.10---5.9--7.9-----7.43---8.69----16000----1189.44--1390.40---200.96
1.26--1.10---5.9--7.9-----7.43---8.69----24000----1784.16--2085.60---301.44
(8000km = 5000 miles)
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From: Ulaanbaatar
Originally Posted by MarkB,May 20 2008, 10:29 AM
I have a friend who just bought two 40 gallon drums of biodiesel to run his Land Rovers on, it worked out at 40p a litre (and that's only because he bought the professionally produced stuff and he's honest enough to pay the tax).
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Is there anything wrong with being a geek? The meaning of the word has evolved considerably, now having a knowledge-based slant, rather thah a gauche fool.
If its antithesis is therefore a vacuous trendie, perhaps it's no bad thing!
If its antithesis is therefore a vacuous trendie, perhaps it's no bad thing!
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