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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by donclark Why did you bother to refuel? With a 26 gallon tank, getting 28 MPG with that Dodge Hemi, you should have been able to go 728 miles. Yes, 26X28=728. Houston to San Antonio is on my map 199 miles. Obviously, your statement above is very revealing.... You could have done it with a gas tank 60 percent full. If you filled up going there, why did you refill coming back? Everyone I knows uses the speedometer zero setting to start a new tank of gas.You use the mileage between gas fillups and the amount of gas it takes to fill your tank to figure out your mileage. Anything less is a farce.... Read this link from the Washington Post.... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/23/AR2005052301937.html Why are all of the consumer agencies complaining that the EPA gas mileage numbers are to high? Is yours the only truck in America that actually gets 30 percent more mileage than an EPA sticker..... I think not! I carpool with a friend who drives a 2004 Dodge Ram Hemi pickup. He used to claim he got 25 MPG.... To test it, he drove 2 weeks one time, and I drove my 2004 Volkswagon Jetta TDI 2 weeks. It turned out he only got 17 MPG, EPA states 18 MPG Highway, while mine car got 42 MPG, EPA states 44 MPG Highway.... Consumer Reports says no one gets the EPA estimates..... NO ONE.... The link above explains why..... [/quote] Don you are one of the very few people I consider very HAPPY to debate the issue to death. Fine. Why did he refuel the truck? Probably for the same reason I do. When half full fill it up! Repeat after me: "When the fuel tank is half empty, I will fill it up again." You never know when you will need that full tank. Especially in trucking. All three of my cars are capable of 300 miles, one can do 420 miles the other two are proven at 350 miles. I fill my tanks at 200 miles or mid week on the active vehicles once a week. When I take road trips, 200 miles is the fuel stop and 4 hour break. That is the way I do it. Take your rig out on some roads out west and you will see signs "NO FUEL 76 miles" Believe me.. YOU DONT WANT TO SEE THAT SIGN NEAR EMPTY! I dont know how the others feel, but this is my last post in this dying thread. What a shame. Oh by the way.. a pickup truck is designed to haul loads some distance. A tiny VW JEtta is strictly for commuting to work with good gas mileage.
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