On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:26:18 +0100, a particular chimpanzee, "DervMan"
 randomly hit the keyboard and produced:

>Brim to brim, over a long enough period of time, removes some of the 
>guesswork.  If we can be bothered of course... :)

Is 8 years long enough? It's very little hassle to set up a basic
spread sheet, and once done, all it takes is to write down the
odometer reading on your fuel receipt (which has the number of litres
on). Type those figures into your spread sheet when you feel in the
mood and, ta-da, instant mpg, average mpg, etc.
-- 
Hugo Nebula
  "If no-one on the internet wants a piece of this,
   just how far from the pack have you strayed?"

In , Hugo Nebula
<abuse@localhost> wrote:

>On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:26:18 +0100, a particular chimpanzee, "DervMan"
> randomly hit the keyboard and produced:
>
>>Brim to brim, over a long enough period of time, removes some of the 
>>guesswork.  If we can be bothered of course... :)
>
>Is 8 years long enough?

I'll raise you 10 years :-)

>It's very little hassle to set up a basic
>spread sheet, and once done, all it takes is to write down the
>odometer reading on your fuel receipt (which has the number of litres
>on). Type those figures into your spread sheet when you feel in the
>mood and, ta-da, instant mpg, average mpg, etc.

Absolutely! I've kept the pence/litre figures too, to track pence/mile.
Bit of a double-edged sword though, when the price rocketed up to 92.9p/l
in Sep 2005 (from 80.9p/l in Jun 2005) I looked at the graph, aghast with
horror. Thought 92.9p/l was unsustainable, terrible, etc.

"Mike Henry" <{$mrtickle$}@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:o0mo845ttg3nbigdhrdons698286sd6igo@4ax.com...
> In , Hugo Nebula
> <abuse@localhost> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:26:18 +0100, a particular chimpanzee, "DervMan"
>> randomly hit the keyboard and produced:
>>
>>>Brim to brim, over a long enough period of time, removes some of the
>>>guesswork.  If we can be bothered of course... :)
>>
>>Is 8 years long enough?
>
> I'll raise you 10 years :-)
>
>>It's very little hassle to set up a basic
>>spread sheet, and once done, all it takes is to write down the
>>odometer reading on your fuel receipt (which has the number of litres
>>on). Type those figures into your spread sheet when you feel in the
>>mood and, ta-da, instant mpg, average mpg, etc.
>
> Absolutely! I've kept the pence/litre figures too, to track pence/mile.
> Bit of a double-edged sword though, when the price rocketed up to 92.9p/l
> in Sep 2005 (from 80.9p/l in Jun 2005) I looked at the graph, aghast with
> horror. Thought 92.9p/l was unsustainable, terrible, etc.


Pfffttt!  Amateurs.... ;)

-- 
The DervMan
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