New Fuel Gauges

[PAUL161]

I understand that the automotive industry is changing the gas gages in our cars so we will have a better understanding of our situation when we pull up to the pump.

 

[bugimike]

Let's see, the one on the left HAS to be for a Spridget, right (8.5 gal. tank!!!)? The one on the right is certainly more appropriate for universal applications!! :thumbsup:

 

[DrEntropy]

My tach now has a dollar sign at th' 4K mark... and I'm doin' a lot more "anticipation" driving. I.E. approaching a traffic light with the thing outta gear, coasting on downhill (anthills here are about the only real elevation change tho), staying to speed limits even tho the REST of th' herd is still at ten over limit... It has actually cut my fuel consumption quite well. :laugh:

...but sometimes I feel like a traffic cone. :smirk:

 

[Tinster]

Let's see, the one on the left HAS to be for a Spridget, right (8.5 gal. tank!!!)? The one on the right is certainly more appropriate for universal applications!! :thumbsup:

<span style="color: #660000">Mike, Mike Mike!!!

You know very well the fuel gauge on the right
is standard equipment on all motor boats!!

d :thumbsup:</span>

 

[bugimike]

Hey Doc. Those new habits sound familiar!! I have also taken to "timing" traffic lights to actually minimize full stops! Why race up to a traffic light just to sit and idle, wasting fuel, when you can take a slow approach and catch the tail of the traffic line as it starts to pull away!! No stopping and starting that way! I have also taken to switching the engine off while waiting for bridge-closings and railway crossings!!


....traffic coneheads unite!!

Dale the one on the LEFT is for boats! They just left off the zeros after the numbers!! The one on the right only goes to E on the wallet side, it SHOULD go much lower!!!

 

[Tinster]

Mike, my itty bitty tarpon boat costs $200 to
fill the tank. My buddy's 21 foot Mako cost him
$600 to fill the tank. A buddy 42 foot cruiser
cost him around $4,000. to fill.

We usally take my boat with it's high tech engine
and split the costs.

My boat burns 1 gallon per hour while tarpon fishing.

d

 

[bugimike]

Yup, Dale, I can attest to that!! I regularly work on a 42' Chris Craft Cruiser with a 400 gal. tank. With diesel at $5.75 at the dock that's $2,300/fillup!! :eeek:

 

[Shane]

My boat burns 1 gallon per hour while tarpon fishing.

d

Wow...my father-in-law's raceboat chugged down 48 GPH during an average race. Guess it would be kinda hard to catch a tarpon @ 120 MPH though... :thumbsup:

 

[angelfj1]

<span style="font-style: italic">I have also taken to "timing" traffic lights to actually minimize full stops! Why race up to a traffic light just to sit and idle, wasting fuel, when you can take a slow approach and catch the tail of the traffic line as it starts to pull away!! </span>

Mike: Sometimes timing traffic signals is not practical. Let's do away with them completely!

<span style="font-weight: bold">WHAT WE NEED ARE ROUNDABOUTS! </span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">The Magic Roundabout - Swindon, Wilts, UK</span>

Petrol was 1.21 pounds per liter last week. Let's see.
1 US gallon = 3.8 liters
so 3.8 x 1.21 = 4.60 pounds per US gallon = $9.20 per US gallon.

<span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">Nine dollars and twenty cents!!! and we're complaining</span></span>

Now, it happens to be a fact that in the UK, except in very large cities and some very large roundabouts, you will not see many traffic signals. They have roundabouts. Despite the complaints I hear from tourists, they do keep the traffic moving, and this helps conserve precious petrol.
<span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">WE NEED ROUNDABOUTS </span></span>
Q.E.D.

 

[vping]

I need one that goes to 120 - dollars that is!

I thought similarly about the roundabout concept the other day. There's a stop sign or traffic light at about every corner around here. What a waste of gas.

 

[Tinster]

Petrol was 1.21 pounds per liter last week. Let's see.
1 US gallon = 3.8 liters
so 3.8 x 1.21 = 4.60 pounds per US gallon = $9.20 per US gallon.

<span style="color: #660000">I have to wonder if the straight line conversion is valid, since Brits are paid in Pounds
not is U.S. Dollars.

For example: What is the minimum wage in the UK?

d</span>

 

[PAUL161]

Roundabouts? Ever drive around New Jersey 30 years ago. New Jersey had a bunch of traffic circles. Same as a British round-a-bout, you just went the other way. They took most of them out and put in traffic lights. I think the major problem was, as traffic increased, most out of state drivers didn't know how to navigate them properly and caused a lot of accidents. If you knew what you were doing, you could zip around them with no problem.

 

[JamesWilson]

Petrol was 1.21 pounds per liter last week. Let's see.
1 US gallon = 3.8 liters
so 3.8 x 1.21 = 4.60 pounds per US gallon = $9.20 per US gallon.

<span style="color: #660000">I have to wonder if the straight line conversion is valid, since Brits are paid in Pounds
not is U.S. Dollars.

For example: What is the minimum wage in the UK?

d</span>

You're right, the conversion calculations are correct, given a $2=£1 rate. Diesel is higher at £1.34/litre.

The minimum wage in the UK for adults is £5.52/hr, but it seems that a fair number of employers (particularly in the food service area) get away with paying much less.

https://www.hmrc.gov.uk/nmw/#b

The US minimum wage is $6.55 I believe. SO it might seem that UK minimum wage workers are a lot better off than are American ones. BUT there's the cost of living to consider:

I looked at a cost-of-living site that considers London to be 25% more expensive than New York. I think that's an underestimate and that London is probably even more expensive than that. But to set against that I'd say minimum wage UK workers are a lot better off since they generally have better access to public transport and most importantly, to the National Health Service for medical care.

 

[bugimike]

One of my pet peeves as far as traffic managemnet goes is the "left-turn" traffic light! To sit at idle and wait for the light to change when there is absolutely no on-coming traffic is a total waste of fuel!! Statutes should be altered to treat these lights like as one would a stop sign, i.e. come to a full stop, determine if it is safe to proceed, and then make the turn! Viola, no idling forever waiting for the signal to change!!

 

[angelfj1]

Yes I remember NJ "Traffic Circles" a la Olga's Diner! There was a famous club in Cherry Hill, NJ, right on the traffic circle. Remember Tiny Tim? Tip toe through the tulips, etc. Remember his er "wife", was it Miss Vickie? She became a stripper and "performed" there. oh, for the good old days!

 

[kennypinkerton]

My motorboat costs $22.50 to fill up and I can fish all day in it and have about a 1/4 tank left over when we put it back on the trailer.

My sailboat doesn't use any fuel

 

[bugimike]

Yes I remember NJ "Traffic Circles" a la Olga's Diner! There was a famous club in Cherry Hill, NJ, right on the traffic circle. Remember Tiny Tim? Tip toe through the tulips, etc. Remember his er "wife", was it Miss Vickie? She became a stripper and "performed" there. oh, for the good old days!

We must have been in that area around the same time!! I remember that (Miss Vickie), though I remember the circles up and down Rts. 35 & 9 mostly, Eatontown, Woodbridge, Collingswood, Neptune, etc. The other unique N.J. traffic feature was (is?) the "jug-handles"!!! :thumbsup: