What's the average of 5 MPG and 10 MPG?
The math isn't quite obvious to me, but if you go out camping and get 5 MPG on the way to the campground and turn around and get 10 MGP on the way back, your average MPG won't be 7.5 as you would expe...
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holstein13 wrote:
... why don't we simply use fuel consumption (i.e. gallons per hundred miles) instead of miles per gallon? It would be much easier to compare mileage if we did so.
Sorry, don't agree at all ... here in Canada we were forced years ago into the metric system so vehicles are rated for fuel mileage in litres per hundred kilometres. :h Fortunately my Avalanche still reads in litres per kilometer :h or if I want to really understand how bad my mileage is when towing :E I can switch it to read using the only reference that makes sense to me - miles to the US gallon. :B OR, I can simply ignore the issue entirely, fill the tank, and just go camping. As has been said many times before, if you're going to start worrying about fuel mileage when towing a trailer then perhaps this sport isn't for you. :R
