The Oil Drum

Stories tagged with drivers

Driving In America

Posted by Dave Cohen on May 17, 2006 - 12:08am
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: automobile, drivers, fuel economy, fuel efficiency, gasoline, interstates, mpg, mph [list all tags]

Update [2006-5-17 18:31:22 by Dave]: I've added some 3rd day notes at the bottom of the story.

I am driving I70 from Boulder on my way to Pittsburgh in my 1988 blue VW Jetta.

Dave's Car (not really, but close!)

So with oil a shade under $70/barrel and gasoline at about $2.80/gallon on the interstate in the Midwest, I thought I'd report on what's going on out here. I hope you'll add your comments to this brief road trip report. I'm sure many of you have plenty of experiences to report.

There's more… (647 words) | 92 comments | | Permalink | Without comments

The contents below are paid advertisements. Their appearance does not imply an endorsement by The Oil Drum.

“So one may almost say that the theory of universal suffrage assumes that the Average Citizen is an active, instructed, intelligent ruler of his country. The facts contradict this assumption.”

—James Bryce (1909, 35)