Posted by Elmo P. Shagnasty on May 20, 2012, 3:08 am
> > The "erroneous calculations" he inferred were the Prius's dashboard
> > numbers vs. his off-the-cuff at the pump numbers.
> >
> > Yeah, no *wonder* they were different.
> >
> > Or are you saying that his at the pump numbers are correct...???
> >
> > He's getting two different numbers. You're calling one of them
> > erroneous, which means de facto you think the other one is not.
> >
> > Which junior high school did you flunk out of again?
>
>
> OP reported consistently 6.5% lower actual than Prius gauged MPG.
>
> Consistently.
>
> Is your problem a lack of reading comprehension skills or total friggin
> stupidity?
And you figured that his at the pump numbers were correct? As opposed
to the Prius numbers?
Tell us again how a "volume per miles" calculation requires knowledge of
the energy content of the fluid itself, instead of simply reflecting the
energy content of the fluid itself.
Posted by News on May 20, 2012, 1:43 pm
On 5/19/2012 11:08 PM, Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> The "erroneous calculations" he inferred were the Prius's dashboard
>>> numbers vs. his off-the-cuff at the pump numbers.
>>>
>>> Yeah, no *wonder* they were different.
>>>
>>> Or are you saying that his at the pump numbers are correct...???
>>>
>>> He's getting two different numbers. You're calling one of them
>>> erroneous, which means de facto you think the other one is not.
>>>
>>> Which junior high school did you flunk out of again?
>>
>>
>> OP reported consistently 6.5% lower actual than Prius gauged MPG.
>>
>> Consistently.
>>
>> Is your problem a lack of reading comprehension skills or total friggin
>> stupidity?
> And you figured that his at the pump numbers were correct? As opposed
> to the Prius numbers?
> Tell us again how a "volume per miles" calculation requires knowledge of
> the energy content of the fluid itself, instead of simply reflecting the
> energy content of the fluid itself.
Work per gallon. Figure it out. Take your time.
Posted by Bruce Richmond on May 20, 2012, 1:52 pm
> On 5/19/2012 11:49 AM, Bruce Richmond wrote:
> >> On 5/13/2012 2:02 PM, Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> >>>> So you admit that everything you've written since then has been off point.
> >>> Not at all.
> >> When did you stop lying?
> > So tell us, oh wise one, which occupies more volume, a gallon of
> > gasoline or a gallon of ethanol?
> How about this one, oh asshat?
> Which has greater energy content and which will produce more work
> against a calibrated standard energy source?
Your question is irrelevant to finding the answer to the original
question. The two factors in mpg are miles, the distance traveled,
and gallons. You don't need to know the energy content of a gallon to
measure it. A gallon is a unit of volume, not energy.
Posted by News on May 20, 2012, 2:42 pm
On 5/20/2012 9:52 AM, Bruce Richmond wrote:
>> On 5/19/2012 11:49 AM, Bruce Richmond wrote:
>>
>>>> On 5/13/2012 2:02 PM, Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>> So you admit that everything you've written since then has been off point.
>>
>>>>> Not at all.
>>
>>>> When did you stop lying?
>>
>>> So tell us, oh wise one, which occupies more volume, a gallon of
>>> gasoline or a gallon of ethanol?
>>
>> How about this one, oh asshat?
>>
>> Which has greater energy content and which will produce more work
>> against a calibrated standard energy source?
> Your question is irrelevant to finding the answer to the original
> question. The two factors in mpg are miles, the distance traveled,
> and gallons. You don't need to know the energy content of a gallon to
> measure it. A gallon is a unit of volume, not energy.
The "original question" was not an MPG calculation.
The "original question" is "why is the Prius calculated MPG
*consistently* wrong?"
Not one time, *consistently* wrong.
Posted by Elmo P. Shagnasty on May 20, 2012, 7:25 pm
> The "original question" is "why is the Prius calculated MPG
> *consistently* wrong?"
>
> Not one time, *consistently* wrong.
Of course, in YOUR scientific method you know that it was "consistently
wrong" HOW? By reading the newsgroup?
It differed from the ad-hoc at the pump calculation. Which one, if
either one, was correct?
> > numbers vs. his off-the-cuff at the pump numbers.
> >
> > Yeah, no *wonder* they were different.
> >
> > Or are you saying that his at the pump numbers are correct...???
> >
> > He's getting two different numbers. You're calling one of them
> > erroneous, which means de facto you think the other one is not.
> >
> > Which junior high school did you flunk out of again?
>
>
> OP reported consistently 6.5% lower actual than Prius gauged MPG.
>
> Consistently.
>
> Is your problem a lack of reading comprehension skills or total friggin
> stupidity?