MPG of your primary vehicle (Page 3)

My job is not to protect everyone else. 

I chose the > 35 mpg because I take the bus.

According to: http://www.buses.org/home/ 

style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #000000">Motorcoaches are the most fuel-efficient transportation mode in the United States, according to a new study authored by Nathan Associates and released today by the American Bus Association Foundation.  The motorcoach industry provided 148.4 passenger miles per gallon of fuel in 2004, the study reported, more than double the second most fuel-efficient sector, intercity trains at 74.1 passenger MPG. Total transit achieved 55.8 passenger MPG, air carriers achieved 40.9 passenger MPG, and automobiles achieved 35.4 passenger MPG.

So, even if the bus is half-full (or half-empty, depending on your perspective), it still gets 74mpg/passenger.  In the morning, my bus is about half-full.  But my afternoon bus is about 80-90% full, with only a few empty seats.  

If you ask about how I get to the bus and back, I drive an old Honda that still gets roughly 30 mpg.  But I only drive it two miles a day.  I fill it up about every 5 months.   

When you (or I) choose to operate a vehicle on a public roadway, we have a definite responsibility for the safety of other users of that roadway.

Just sayin' there is a counter-point to the "bigger is safer and more bigger is more safer" argument.

Responsibility and Job are two diferent things.  An accident is just that "an accident".  I choose to protect myself from mine or others mistakes.  I can't make you protect yourself if you don't feel the threat is great enough.

I drive a 2006 Toyota Solara. It gets about 25 mpg. It's a convertible. I love it. And it's not too too terrible on gas.

Before this car I had a Toyota Camry briefly... that got upper 20's...

Before that, I had a Saturn SL2 (1993) that also got upper 20's.

14.6 mpg for the current tank on the Corvette.  Mostly in-town driving.  Gets in the mid-20's out on the interstate.

I disconnected the (alleged) gas-saving 1st-to-4th skip-shift feature on the six-speed ZF gearbox a long time ago. 

Mark

Toyota 4Runner 23mpg

I commute a total of 130 miles RT everyday. Think of all the training I could do if I wasn't driving that much.

I have a 2001 subaru imprezza outback.   going to start driving this more, now that it is nice - gets about 80mpg.

Husband is starting to turn american on me and thinks he ought to own a truck....    when he is working, the company gives him a truck to drive.  When he is not working, we do fine with one car and the scooter.....    But the lure of consumerism is calling him....  

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The transmission is the best feature of the car.

Actually it isn't bad for the bike.  I put a trailer hitch on it and carry bikes that way.  I can even open the hatch with bikes on the back 8)

'98 Civic:  I get about 30-32 mpg around town and between 36-38 on highway.  Pretty happy with those numbers...

Bicycle, Bicycle !

Does beer count as a fossil fuel....

In that case 1000 miles per Gallon.