Actually it isn't quite as simple as that! Fuel consumption depends on a number of factors such as how the car is driven, the type of roads driven on, the mood of the driver, the speed of the car, even things like air temperature and wind direction.
No wonder pumps are dry 1183Following up to Cessna172 So what? The point is I had petrol while the pumps were empty for a short time and in the case of the blockade working, for emergencies. Nobody...
My present car has a trip computer that works out fuel consumption, both average over a few seconds and over a distance. I have seen the result vary from about 30mpg up to 117mpg over distances of a few miles, the first stop-start driving (several journeys of a mile or two) in a city on the hottest day of the year, the other through motorway road works at a constant 40mph in 6th gear.
No wonder pumps are dry 1184Yes, many people were as thoughtless as you. So why the panic then? You and others like you dried up the pumps a week before they needed to if the dispute...
Can you believe the manufacturers mpg figures? Probably not, even if you knew which of the published figures to apply to your journey..
There are some routing websites, IIRC viamichelin is one, that will attempt to calculate you fuel costs over a given route, givien that you enter your car's fuel consumption. Never tried to use it though, so I don't know how well it works.
Martin
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