Thursday, September 27, 2012

25% better gas mileage?

Left at 0-dark-thirty this morning headed for Austin. Drove the same route I've driven many times.
It usually takes a full tank of gas for the round trip.  Topped off the tank this morning and headed out.
The tC is usually right on 1/2 tank when I arrive at my destination. This time I arrived with 5/8 of a tank.
Got home with 1/4 of a tank of gas.
Same route.
Same rush hour traffic in  Austin.
A/C was running the whole way.
Eco mode turned off as usual.
Same lead foot. (speaking of which, I blew past a DPS officer running radar doing 75 in 65 zone and was sure I was going to get tagged.  He was either asleep, or looking for bigger fish)
No recent oil change or air filter change.
No change in tire pressure.
I certainly haven't lost any weight.

pretty strange. I'm stumped.



6 comments:

  1. Filled up with real gas instead of gasohol?

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  2. not knowingly. That thought did cross my mind. If that was the case, someone screwed up a delivery to my local Valero station.
    Closest place I know to get real gas is in Sargent, TX, some 88 miles away.

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  3. Due to a top secret program I've been running, the slope of the ground in Texas has been warped enough that you were actually going downhill both ways.

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    1. Could you run that every other Thursday for the next two years? It's most helpful.

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  4. It would have had to have been a category 1 hurricane :-)

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