D'oh! A new first...

You wasted 30 Gallons of Gas!


Do you know how many hours of flight time that would pay for nowadays?!?!

Out here in New York that would pay the salaries of your entire kitchen
staff for a week!



"Jay Honeck" wrote in news:1147232294.578773.197660
@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

After 'Movie Night' concluded tonight (a double feature, BTW, with the
REAL "Memphis Belle" World War II documentary film, and "One Six Right"
-- the absolutely terrific movie about Van Nuys airport, released last
fall) -- one of our guests for the night, a pipeline pilot, asked to
borrow our courtesy van to fetch a bite to eat.

He came back in a couple of minutes later, to report that the battery
was dead, and that he had found the key turned to the "on" position.
None of us could figure out why anyone would do that, when it suddenly
dawned on me...

...I had moved the van back three feet to mow the grass. The front
bumper was overhanging the lawn, and I only needed to move it a bit.
However, I didn't want to just start it and stop it right away, cuz it
hadn't been run in a week, so I left it to warm up, and resumed mowing
the lawn.

That was last week, Friday. Today is Tuesday.

It had a full tank. 30 U.S. gallons...

:-(
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Judah" wrote in message
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You wasted 30 Gallons of Gas!


Do you know how many hours of flight time that would pay for nowadays?!?!

Less than one?

Do you know how many hours of flight time that would pay for nowadays?!?!

Less than one?

Actually, two -- in just plain fuel costs.

I try not to dwell on all the rest...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:
Do you know how many hours of flight time that would pay for nowadays?!?!

Less than one?

Actually, two -- in just plain fuel costs.

Out here in LaLa Land, the local news just did a breathless story with
security cameras that taped a guy in an RV siphoning gas from a
delivery truck and a van in a parking lot late at night.

They said $1800 worth of gas was taken.

I didn't bother calling the station. If they really think RV's have a
500 gallon tank on board, who am I to correct them.

BTW, Jay, are you still able to buy non-blended mogas? I've been
looking around So. Cal and I can't find any here. I hate to run 100 LL
in a 2 stroke, but it looks like I won't have a choice.

("Richard Riley" wrote)
BTW, Jay, are you still able to buy non-blended mogas? I've been looking
around So. Cal and I can't find any here. I hate to run 100 LL in a 2
stroke, but it looks like I won't have a choice.


My experience driving all around Iowa last year was, only a few pumps have
Ethanol blends in them - everything else is mostly non-blended mogas.

The opposite is true in the Twin Cities - and much of Minnesota.
99.5% of ALL pumps have Ethanol blends. You have to hunt for the rare
station that has one pump set aside for "Ethanol Free/Non-Oxygenated"
....it's usually Premium gas. One pump out of many... might as well sell the
expensive stuff.


Montblack

BTW, Jay, are you still able to buy non-blended mogas? I've been
looking around So. Cal and I can't find any here. I hate to run 100 LL
in a 2 stroke, but it looks like I won't have a choice.

It was good talking to you yesterday, Richard!

As we discussed, despite the fact that Iowa is "to blame" for ethanol,
we still have no trouble finding ethanol-free mogas.

Thank goodness. God only knows how much longer this situation will
last...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"