Chuck Tomlinson
No need to be that tactful. His claims are mostly a ruse to justify speeding. I don't know if it's deliberate or the happy coincidence of faulty measurements, since he never quite cites his methods. Here's the official word on his car:
That agrees perfectly with the findings of this and other links on the topic.
There's no free "power lunch" and fuel economy is the price to be paid. There will always be people who can't handle the truth when it conflicts with a lifestyle. My whole crusade on r.a.d. was-is about exposing that selfish aspect of human nature. I'll never win, I know. I'm fighting millions of years of mind-game evolution!
Put more simply, once you're in top gear you burn more fuel the faster you go. Except in a gravity-free vacuum, keeping a mbutt moving at a higher speed requires more power, and more power means more air and fuel pbutting through the cylinders. Good old physics, right Chuck?
We're in a spot where we need to conserve oil more than ever but some people won't give up their fast ways. The lengths they'll go to don't surprise me, given the history of this newsgroup. How about you, old sage? You might even be able to squeeze 30 MPG out of that Corvette if you hold down your highway speed in 6th with a tailwind.
C.T.
