Several knee surgeries ago, I used to run 5 miles a day. I weighed myself before and after the run and figured the weight loss was water. I did the calculations and I computed that I get 16.4 miles to the gallon: about the same mileage as an SUV.
Gasoline is measured in 1/1000 of a gallon. A thousandth of a gallon is about a teaspoon. That much gas is enough to move an SUV about 70 feet: enough to reach the next gas pump.
What I never could figger out was the train commercial that bragged “they could move 472 tons a hundred miles on one gallon of fuel”… (paraphrasing) I’m good at math, but like Foghorn Leghorn said; “It just don’t add up!!” and please, don’t enlighten me with mathematical tricksternometry, for I’d rather live in the dark and know what I know, rather than have to deal with the inrush of sunshine and fresh knowledge that would pain my dilated brain-pan.
Observer fo Irony almost 10 years ago
Must have been a draft horse.
Francis Lapeyre Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Good mileage, but bad emissions.
NoCents almost 10 years ago
What the hay?
dflak almost 10 years ago
Several knee surgeries ago, I used to run 5 miles a day. I weighed myself before and after the run and figured the weight loss was water. I did the calculations and I computed that I get 16.4 miles to the gallon: about the same mileage as an SUV.
Gasoline is measured in 1/1000 of a gallon. A thousandth of a gallon is about a teaspoon. That much gas is enough to move an SUV about 70 feet: enough to reach the next gas pump.
Who said math can’t be fun.
unca jim almost 10 years ago
What I never could figger out was the train commercial that bragged “they could move 472 tons a hundred miles on one gallon of fuel”… (paraphrasing) I’m good at math, but like Foghorn Leghorn said; “It just don’t add up!!” and please, don’t enlighten me with mathematical tricksternometry, for I’d rather live in the dark and know what I know, rather than have to deal with the inrush of sunshine and fresh knowledge that would pain my dilated brain-pan.