Way back on February 21, 2005 CE, I blogged about crossing 160,000 furlongs on the ol' oh-dough-meter. At that point, I was racking them up at the rate of roughly 1300 furlongs per fortnight.
Tomorrow morning the meter will turn over once more to three zeros on the right, this time to 176,000 furlongs (16,000 more than when I last blogged on this topic).
If you'll recall, the price of gasoline spiked to over $3 per gallon last fall (and is flirting with that price once more). You might also recall that my V-hickle averages about 80 furlongs per gallon of petrol. Naturally, I've cut back on my driving a bit and drive the castration-mobile more frequently (my wife's minivan). This reduction in use of the truck is reflected in the turning of the mile markers.
So I now seem to be averaging about 533 and a third; RPM — er — furlongs per fortnight. That's a decrease of nearly 60 percent from the previous rate. If this continues, and if 1 of 2 takes over this vehicle, it may have only 272,000 furlongs on it!
Then again, he may not be able to afford to drive it.
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how many hectares/liter is that?
Well, Gene, if you express my v-hikle's fuel consumption in meters per liter and then figure out how many meters I would travel to completely cover a hectare (rounding the width of my truck to two meters) you could say that my truck gets 0.85 hectares per liter. But since I was talking about something based on time I think it might be better to use hectares per some unit of time or liters per unit of time. I'll leave that conversion up to you.
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