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Zachary940
Wraith
Posted: 3 May 2007
20:33 GMT
Total Posts: 714 | Do not buy gas on May 15. If the nation stands together and starves OPEC for one day, then they will get the idea. Keep in mind the last time this hapend gas prices fell .30 the next day. The bigger the out come the bigger the reward.
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Barrett
Administrator
Posted: 3 May 2007
20:35 GMT
Total Posts: 1676 | well... I'm not saying that this wouldn't work... but it really shouldn't work. We're all going to get gas either the day before or the day after (or two or three days), and this "strike" doesn't have anything to do with using gas. If opec was smart, they wouldn't budge, because they know that nothing is changing... just 1 bad day.
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 3 May 2007
20:49 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | I'll deliberately buy gas just to lessen the effect.
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banjo2E
Wraith
Posted: 4 May 2007
05:42 GMT
Total Posts: 689 | My non-gas-buying-ness will have no effect either; I don't have a car.
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tifreak8x
Administrator
Posted: 4 May 2007
08:48 GMT
Total Posts: 419 | The only way to make a truly significant impact on them is to stop using gas for a minimum of 2 weeks, but you will not find enough people to do that...
Keep in mind the following though:
If people would slow down, their cars would use less gas (IE Dont go 80, do 60)
If more people would car pool, less gas would be needed
If more people walked the few blocks to get to their destination instead of driving their car because they are too lazy, gas prices would drop...
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banjo2E
Wraith
Posted: 4 May 2007
09:11 GMT
Total Posts: 689 | @tifreak: There is just one problem with your argument: When you go faster, your engine needs LESS fuel, not more, to fly. Cases in point: A jumbo jet uses more fuel at takeoff speeds than it does at cruise speeds. And, of course, city mileage is always worse than highway mileage, albeit combining faster-speed gas-saving with lack of start-stop gas wasteage..
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Zachary940
Wraith
Posted: 4 May 2007
12:10 GMT
Total Posts: 714 | Hey I'm just the messenger on this one. And I agree with you all. with the exception of bajo's last post.
@banjo get a car and go fast around I-465. See how much gas you use. Then fill up and go the speed limit. Faster = More fule
When your car's transmision goes into overdrive at 60 the tactometer is about 2000 RPMs. At 80 it is around 2750 RPMs.
FYI I have a Ford Escort and that is where I'm getting these numbers and the engine is rebuilt.
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tifreak8x
Administrator
Posted: 4 May 2007
12:23 GMT
Total Posts: 419 | banjo, for your information, I am an auto tech, and a wrecker driver. A vehicle uses more gas on takeoff, and of course uses tons more gas in town than anything else, but at cruising speeds of around 60 mph on the interstate, you get far better mileage than doing 80.
If you also have a stickshift, and shift at lower RPMs, you will save on gas.
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Zachary940
Wraith
Posted: 4 May 2007
15:25 GMT
Total Posts: 714 | Well no stick here. Good oll automatic that shifts when I don't want it to.
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allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 4 May 2007
19:06 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | tifreak is right, of course. After a certain point your car will need more gas to keep up the speed do to more power required to combat the increased air resistance...
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tifreak8x
Administrator
Posted: 4 May 2007
19:53 GMT
Total Posts: 419 | Yes, you can also compare to pushing a car. It takes a great deal of effort and energy to get it moving, but once it starts moving, you need less energy to keep it moving. Same thing with the whole plane thing you were trying to act like you knew about. It takes a great deal of effort to get their, but once there, it requires less fuel to maintain it being in the air and moving...
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 4 May 2007
20:20 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | The reason you get better mileage on the highway than on the city is because you don't spend half your time with your car stopped at a light.
How could you think going faster takes less fuel? That defies logic.
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Zachary940
Wraith
Posted: 4 May 2007
20:27 GMT
Total Posts: 714 | Also defines physics
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ryantmer
Wraith
Posted: 4 May 2007
22:11 GMT
Total Posts: 692 | That is a rather humourous spelling error... it completely reverses the meaning of what you said :D
Yes humourous. Not a spelling error. i r canada-ish, eh? |
threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 4 May 2007
22:39 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | I noticed that too but decided not to comment.
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Zachary940
Wraith
Posted: 4 May 2007
22:43 GMT
Total Posts: 714 | Woops, um yea sorry about that one. I think you all know what I mean
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 5 May 2007
15:26 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | If people wanted to be fuel-efficient, everyone would go around in motorless blimps that didn't need to be deflated ever. I mean, that's what I plan to do...
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 5 May 2007
17:10 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | Yeah, it would all be very zen.
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tifreak8x
Administrator
Posted: 6 May 2007
06:15 GMT
Total Posts: 419 | or you could ride a bike where ever you go. You would have well defined legs after a while. XD
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ryantmer
Wraith
Posted: 6 May 2007
10:27 GMT
Total Posts: 692 | I do that. Yay. Although I landed pretty hard a couple of days ago and broke my seat. |
banjo2E
Wraith
Posted: 6 May 2007
14:56 GMT
Total Posts: 689 | We could also work like mad to discover warp drive...
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 6 May 2007
20:53 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | I'd rather eat a sandwich.
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banjo2E
Wraith
Posted: 7 May 2007
05:46 GMT
Total Posts: 689 | Instead of a sandwich, would you like a giant shard-filled donut*?
*Warning: This product will kill you, but that's OK because it tastes great!
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allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 7 May 2007
08:09 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | I fail to see how this relates to gas prices. |
banjo2E
Wraith
Posted: 9 May 2007
05:42 GMT
Total Posts: 689 | It's going off of DRACULA'S statement that he'd rather GO DENNIS
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ryantmer
Wraith
Posted: 9 May 2007
06:32 GMT
Total Posts: 692 | Heh, the Google ad at the bottom of this page is a PetroCard ad :D |
haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 9 May 2007
19:23 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | I don't have any ads at http://design.calcgames.org/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?t=7975&tmplt=14...
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Zachary940
Wraith
Posted: 9 May 2007
19:34 GMT
Total Posts: 714 | You also don't have the nav bar at the top
http://calcg.org/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?t=7975&p=last
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 9 May 2007
20:02 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | That's what frames are for They get better mileage than motorcycles.
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 10 May 2007
08:39 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | I just see text ads here at good ol' calcgames.org.
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ryantmer
Wraith
Posted: 10 May 2007
10:56 GMT
Total Posts: 692 | I personally have no problems with the ads on calcg... In fact, I have nothing against ads in general, unless they have popups... then they musst die.
Coincidentally, today the ads are for calculators and oil >_> |
