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Hi All:

___A long rant with an OK ending … I guess? GM’s leadership visiting the Hybrid research center for the first time, Ford’s monstrous losses last quarter, Bush and Iraq, Foley and Hastert, Government debt, Trade Deficit, Global Warming, 72 hour work weeks + commute time, sleeping in the car with 30 degree temps and to top it all off, I am getting real sick of the below lmpg commutes this month. With the first warm day in Oct., I felt that enough was enough.

___Left work with my car pooler and he looked tired so I got him home fast. Bad decision. 47 - 48 degrees with a lowly 47.5 mpg segment to the Park and Ride to show for it. Hour and a half nap and it is 57 degrees. Screw it, I am going to push for 60 … Hit a stop and crawl just before O’Hare so pulled into the O’Hare Oasis at 59.5 mpg’s for 15 minutes to cool off with the temp at 59 degrees F. Ok ****it, its warm enough for the gloves to come off and $#(% the traffic for segment #3! 2 miles from the Oasis and I see an OTR Garbage hauler at 70 + coming out of Chicago heading into WI. His debris tarp is flapping in the breeze off the back of the trailer and garbage is strewn for over 5 miles down I-94. Now I am really pissed after that little show! I throw the #%$ +_@($% *@#%(#( book at her for the last 30 miles …

___I arrive home with OAT at 63 degrees F and I find the wife has the digital Kodak in San Francisco and my son’s digital is nowhere to be found. That leaves me with this cheap POS Motorola camera phone with pics costing a bloody fortune to send to my E-Mail :(

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/505/10-30-06_1019.jpg

___That just about does it.

___Anyone still believe that colder temps do not severely harm ones FE? The SG-II in the Accord is setup with my harshest negative offset to date at 4% on this tank as well.

___Ok, rant mode off now. Thanks for listening and have a nice day :)

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Hi Wayne.

I just got off the phone with someone from Mother Jones doing some fact checking for the impending article.

Mileage or not, rant or not, you're still a celebrity in my book.

Good luck
-Tony

Wayne:

Those 72 hour work weeks and sleeping the car are getting to you buddy.

Im looking at doing things diff. and forgoing the cash. I pray to God I can get out of the insanity. The money just isnt worth it. Lifes just to short.

Hang tight buddy.

Jeff

Wayne, I hope things get better as I'm no stranger to frustration either.

Well - I'm off today attempting to catch up on things.

I remember when I worked 60+ hours a week and got chewed out by a former supervior I'm happy to have parted with - I was edgy.

Wow what a day! And some people say hyperniling is simple/easy!

Well I confess for this month I'd set aside hyperminling and drove 95% freeway and posted lower numbers. (settled for super-miling) :rolleyes:
Today I took the old beaten MPG path and again parked high 60's and happy about that.

Well, HG, I wish it would have been simple this morning! 47 degrees this morning, so I wasn't expecting big problems, but that was before I noted the SOC meter with two bars at the beginning of the commute? Not sure how this happened, but it dropped the FE by 10 mpg most of the way in. Nothing seemed to bring the mpg reading up and it seemed like the wheels were rolling in molassas? Finished 61.x on the way in, but hit 67.x on the return. Last tank at 63.4 mpg.

Hang in there Wayne. I remember rotating shifts in the Navy. I was a lot younger then - and it was still a pain. Couldn't do it now!

Wayne Gerdes "xcel" I am trying to determine if I respond to this Thread in a (Serious) manner or in a "?????" manner. :confused:

I think I have got it. ;)

tiger

Hey, everybody needs to let off steam now and then. If that was literal steam, Wayne would be happier.

I mean we need to sound off at times...

Wow what a day! Well I confess for this month I'd set aside hyperminling and drove 95% freeway and posted lower numbers. (settled for super-miling) :rolleyes:
Today I took the old beaten MPG path and again parked high 60's and happy about that.

Yes HG I noticed at TDIClub that you tanked this month. That leaves just me and Basjoos fending off all of those diesels. My mileage has also suffered due to cooler temps, somewhere between 5-8 MPG.

Wayne, breathe deeply. Remember when you talked me through my SOC frustration during the Insight Marathon? Consider this thread as your pep talk.:Banane33:

being to pull that number with anger is a winner in my eyes. Nice job!

Sometimes when the world around you is going to hell in a handbasket….you just gotta go grab control back.

I would agree that 66.2mpg under the described conditions is a satisfying way to give the finger to the whole mess.

It would have been slightly amusing if the readout was 66.6mpg. {muhahahahahah} (It's Halloween today)

No worries Wayne - you'll get those numbers back up soon. And just think of the elation when you do . . . :D

I can't even get anything close to that in my manual civic. You should be proud that you get 48mpg in a automatic accord.