If you think your mileage is bad...

[AustinBoston]

Try the QE 2:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/trivia/qe2.asp

Their estimate of 40-50 feet per gallon comes out to .007 to .009 miles to the gallon.
 :yikes:

Austin

[wavery]

Try the QE 2:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/trivia/qe2.asp

Their estimate of 40-50 feet per gallon comes out to .007 to .009 miles to the gallon.
 :yikes:

Austin

Ya but remember.....they car pool. The QE2 holds about 2200 passengers and crew. that works out to about 20.8MPG per person(@50' per G). When you figure, that's one heck of a ClassAAA Motorhome with entertainment included.....that's not too shabby.

[AustinBoston]

Ya but remember.....they car pool. The QE2 holds about 2200 passengers and crew.

If yer gonna start talking people, I'm gonna start talking dollars per mile and dollars per passenger mile.  :yikes:  :yikes:

Austin

[trumpet87]

Ya but remember.....they car pool. The QE2 holds about 2200 passengers and crew. that works out to about 20.8MPG per person(@50' per G). When you figure, that's one heck of a ClassAAA Motorhome with entertainment included.....that's not too shabby.

Who would've ever thought of it that way!!! AMAZING thinking!!!

[dademt]

Who would've ever thought of it that way!!! AMAZING thinking!!!

Amazing, scary, and in retrospect I think the final description waverly would agree with..... He needs to get out camping more.  
 
Sorry my friend, I just couldn't resist.

[beacher]

Who would've ever thought of it that way!!! AMAZING thinking!!!

Someone who lived on a boat and sailed around the world a couple times!    



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[Old Goat]

The vehicle that moves the space shuttle from it's hanger to the launch pad gets 35 feet per gallon. Fuel consumption in the USA now averages over 4000 gallons per second.

[AustinBoston]

The vehicle that moves the space shuttle from it's hanger to the launch pad gets 35 feet per gallon.

That comes to .006 miles per gallon...glad I'm not paying for it...oh, wait, I AM paying for it.  

Austin

[dademt]

The vehicle that moves the space shuttle from it's hanger to the launch pad gets 35 feet per gallon.

That doesn't even count the new road surface of river stone that they need each time.