Much as I would love to run out and get a new SS (with a huge loan) and romp around with this cheap gas, it would be wildly irresponsible. Kinda makes me sick that people I know who are financially irresponsible do the same thing with trucks and SUVs with a why not, gas is cheap now mindset.
My car has run just fine on 87 after I got the right spark plugs, and I do lots of stop and go city driving.
I think you are painting folks that operate, what you interpret as, fuel inefficient vehicles, with a rather broad brush.
My personal example: one of my vehicles is a full size Chevy pickup.
It is used primarily for towing my enclosed car hauler and, when I'm going RC flying, a pickup bed full of rather fragile, but large (averaging 60" wingspan) aircraft.....and sometimes, just driven cause I like it.
My total annual mileage works out to approximately 2000 miles per year (1997 vehicle, 38k and some change over nineteen years of ownership...summer only driving).
My average mileage is around 13mpg.
So, on average, I burn 154 gallons per year.
How many gallons, over the course of a year, do you think your fuel efficient Cruze consumed? My fuel efficient Cruze, with a lifetime average of 33.4mpg, consumed approximately 273 gallons over the same time period.......so, using your mindset, everytime I operate the truck I'm irresponsible, even though it will consume close to only half of the fuel the Cruze goes through.
When talking about usage of gasoline, in this example, you can only apply your opinion of waste when you know the whole story......in this case, annual consumption.
More likely than not, the majority of forum members consumed more fuel than I over the course of a year but that doesn't mean they were wasteful/irresposible.
The media would have you believe that the 100lb. lady driving the Suburban to work uses that vehicle solely for that purpose when in fact that same vehicle may have hauled six cub scouts and their camping gear for a educational weekend.
Moral of the story, don't throw stones in glass houses.
Thanks for winding me up, heh heh......think I'll ride the 100mpg scooter to the shop today......then the world considers me a nutcase, but a resource responsible nutcase.
Rob
Whoops......I fell off track.......regular is running about 2.09/2.29 in N/E Illinois 11/16/15