| [GMCnet] Cross country adventure part 10 [message #90884] |
Fri, 02 July 2010 20:58  |
Gerald Work
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Registered: June 2010
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After 3500 miles our gas mileage is increasing once again. We are now in NY on our way into VT tomorrow. A hundred years ago while on my masters program we traveled to Bennington, VT, and bought some pottery that we could not afford. Still love it to this day! We will revisit that pottery plant tomorrow. Now we can afford it, but traveling in our GMC we have no space for it.....so, I guess some things really don't change all that much.
Back to the gas mileage. It stayed quite stable while moving west toward the Rockies even though we were going up hill. Once over the top we expected mileage to rise significantly as we were then going down hill. It did not. We were approaching the corn belt and as far as we could tell the gas was getting worse and worse. Vapor lock increased and the pumps sometimes told the sad tale with ever increasing amounts of corn syrup in the form of ethanol, sometimes not. In any event we saw mileage crater the deeper we went into the corn belt. It got down to just under an over all average of 8 at the low point.
As we have moved further and further east away from the corn belt mileage is rising again. It is now 9.34 mpg averaged over this 3500 miles so I think we can safely conclude now that removing the pod and changing to a low profile AC has increased mileage by about 1 mpg, quite significant given the base of 8 mpg we think we started with. Oh, and vapor lock has not been an issue. The electric fuel pump has not been on in several days. Ethanol from edible corn a truly rotten way for our useless political types to proclaim they are developing an energy policy for our nation. Yuk!
We spent a couple of incredible days going through the fabulous Corning Glass museum and it's cousin the equally remarkable Rockwell Museum of Western Art. What a treat. Highly recommended.
Small town America remains a place in which we all can take pride. Now if we could find a way to sink the media centers and political centers of "power" on both coasts.....
Jerry
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