600 mile range Federal law needed

Hi, I think it would be great to have a 600 mile range on a gas tank. I have been driving a Taurus for the last 3 years and the range for city driving is only 200 miles. The Taurus is a good car but, the most annoying thing about it is that I need to watch the "trick" gas guage so closely. Full is about a quarter inch past F. Empty, is when the needle is around the quarter mark. The needle on half means there are about 3 gallons left. People have asked me if I am sure about this and I am because even though I have never run out, I have seen the unmistakeable signs of being close to running out including sputters and the like. The issue with being able to calculate a 600 mile range though would be that it would need to rely on accurate MPG figures which are not always the case. MPGs vary based on terrain, weather and other factors.

Reply to
R Steenerson
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So you actually listen to yourself?

Maybe if you'd pay more attention to what is going on in this country and get off that Faux News, you'd learn a thing or two.

Reply to
Don

Again, you need to learn the facts. Bush NEVER won a federal election. Only in the recounts that favored bush did he win. And those were so mucked up just to get those figures. Not to mention the illegal purge of legally registered voters. And yes, the machines were faulty. Still are. If they were so accurate, then why is it the republikan party refuses to allow a paper trail added to all of the machines used?

Reply to
Don

Sure, just tell me where the original post came from and where and when this became cross posted?????????

Reply to
Don

I once had a fuel gage go out in my old Plymouth (not so) Reliant. I never new how much gas I had but I always kept track of the mileage. I know the way I drive a vehicle and I knew I could go so far before needing to fill up. This went on for almost two years, spring, summer, autumn and winter, WI to CA. Different conditions do mean different MPG but it can be compensated for if one knows his vehicle.

I also think the original poster may have meant that a 600 MPG Rating would have been under certain conditions. Look at any ad in a magazine where they claim such and such MPG. There is always the disclaimer about conditions and how you drive.

Reply to
Don

A little more originalty than some regurgitated Al Franken lines woudld be better.

Reply to
Peter A. Stavrakoglou

You're asking for 600 miles city driving? So you want a 33 gallon tank? I don't think you would be happy with that, and when full, your milage would drop dut to the weight.

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

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Bill Putney

... and like I said you think that the lunar landing was faked and that Bush prayed Katrina into being and hitting New Orleans. Again - as long as we have people like you speaking publicly on behalf of the libs, the Democrat pary has an uphill battle. All we conservatives ask is that you keep up the good work.

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

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Bill Putney

If no one reply to these loonies they would go away. They are social rejects that have no life. The only place they can attract an audience for their convoluted logic is with an OT post in a NG.

mike

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Mike Hunter

I really don't care if the lunar landing was faked.

I don't think bush or any religious fanatic could pray any hurricane into existence, much less where it's going to hit.

I only believe in facts. Not the idiotic ideas you have of us liberals.

Reply to
Don

Bill, are you a religious man? Are you a so-called christian?

If so, just how in the hell do you think you're going to get into heaven by badmouthing liberals? Remember, jesus was the biggest liberal of them all.

Reply to
Don

Please not this tripe. You're probably one of those who claim Joseph and Mary were homeless too when Jesus was born.

Reply to
Peter A. Stavrakoglou

You know nothing of true Christianity if you think not badmouthing liberals will get you into heaven. Sorry - but that's not the criteria.

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

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Bill Putney

"Bill Putney" wrote

only been hanging out in automotive-related newsgroups, huh? if you consider his postings to be frothy, you have been extremely sheltered.

i won't speak to the issue of freedom of expression, but in regard to virtually everything else -- the war in iraq, the economy, immigration, irresponsible tax cuts and while ballooning the deficit, the pathetic response to hurricane katrina, this administration is nothing short of criminal. as the saying goes, "if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." i would consider it frivolous to take anybody by the hand and lead them to the mountains of evidence regarding this administration's blunders, lies and malfeasance. anybody who doesn't realize what's happening is either wilfully blind or woefully stupid.

what was the question? i was simply responding to your apparent lack of humor.

they can express themselves all they like; but it's been my experience that rabid bush-backers are your typical "crash beer can on forehead, thump your chest, kill em all and let my non-existent god sort it out" kinda guys. they wear buffalo-check flannel sweaters, bad haircuts and have a vocabulary somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 words. i consider it to be good form to let them know that any bullying behavior on their part will be met with the reduction of their head to a pulpy and bloody mass. they understand that. other than that, they can express away.

Typcial libs. You want to

i'd do the same. i don't help the walking dead.

Reply to
Warlock

By your replies, you wouldn't know it if it jumped up and bit you in your ass.

Yes, yes. Just as bush said. Tell me, how was Sadam supposed to prove he didn't have what he didn't have? That is like saying, show me you have something in your hand when you have nothing in your hand. It's all a play on words to make Sadam look guilty to the imbeciles that follow bush's line of thinking.

Where. Hiding in his underwear? Sadam had none. End of story.

I guess you're gonna try telling me Sadam invaded Kuwait 5000 times in the last 100 years? You are insane.

Clinton never said that.

Go back and check your history. Don't you remember you fools putting down the French because they voted against bush's war? So did the Germans, the Russians and the Chineese. All members of the UN Security Council. Jeez. And I thought you knew some facts.

Like I said. It's not provable.

As I said above, how was he supposed to prove the glass was empty when there was nothing inside to show?

Bullshit. There were never any Al Quaida in Iraq before bush got his war hardon and made a mess of everything getting 1896 American service men and women killed because he lied. Even that Zarqauwi (spelling?) dude said that he has just become a follower of Al Quaida, and that was after the war started. Didn't Fox News tell you that? I guess not. They won't tell you the truth if it makes their imbecile look bad.

Reply to
Don

Why would anyone really care???????????????

Reply to
Don

"Peter A. Stavrakoglou" wrote

i agree. all this tripe about some comic book hero for adults floating around the sky and giving a damn about a buncha bald primates is just plain pathetic.

Reply to
Warlock

Your bush boy isn't liked by too many of you anymore.

Better get wise and jump ship before you're the only fool left.

==================================== President's Approval Rating Dips Below 40 By Will Lester The Associated Press Saturday 10 September 2005

President Bush's job approval has dipped below 40 percent for the first time in the AP-Ipsos poll, reflecting widespread doubts about his handling of gasoline prices and the response to Hurricane Katrina.

Nearly four years after Bush's job approval soared into the 80s after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Bush was at 39 percent job approval in an AP-Ipsos poll taken this week. That's the lowest since the the poll was started in December 2003.

The public's view of the nation's direction has grown increasingly negative as well, with nearly two-thirds now saying the country is heading down the wrong track.

Reply to
Don

Where Is Osama bin Laden?

It's the fourth anniversary of September 11 - and Osama bin Laden is still at large.

Your fool in the White House has had 1,461 days and still no sign of Osama.

I wonder why that is?

Because your boy stupid is too busy with his illegal oil grab in the wrong place?

Reply to
Don

Just a reminder of what you support by supporting that mindless wonder you keep praising.

FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board FEMA to Chicago: Send just one truck FEMA turns away generators FEMA: "First Responders Urged Not To Respond"

And take a good look at that last one. That is straight from the FEMA website.

By supporting bush, you support a disaster.

Reply to
Don

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