Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of reverse logic

Re:Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of r... by mlyle on Sunday December 26, 2021 @01:22AM (#29690211)

Hugely variable. I only burn about 20 gallons of gas per year. About one third of that is to avoid fuel spoiling, one third of that is for when I need longer trips, and one third when I screw up charging.

Even so, I get about 40MPG, so much better than an average vehicle.

It does sting to maintain an engine for 800 miles a year.

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Re:Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of r... by alliao on Sunday December 26, 2021 @04:39AM (#29690966)

never thought about that, do the oil come out looking new?

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Re:Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of r... by mlyle on Sunday December 26, 2021 @02:23PM (#29695428)

I don't change my own oil anymore, but I imagine that it's just barely picked up some color-- Honda specifies synthetic and it's only a few hundred miles per change.

Pretty soon I'm going to be out of warranty and I'm going to stretch the oil change interval a bit beyond what they suggest-- 16 mos instead of a year. It just feels wasteful.

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