{"id":80,"date":"2006-08-14T15:20:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T19:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2006\/08\/14\/30-mpg\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T15:20:28","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T19:20:28","slug":"30-mpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2006\/08\/14\/30-mpg\/","title":{"rendered":"30 MPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I achieved over 30mpg on a tank of gas for the first time! Driven mostly on highway and VT &#8220;back&#8221; roads (usually around 50mph), I achieved 30.49 mpg, as well as my longest range of 370.8 miles. This was despite my car being packed full with camping gear, spare wheel and a passenger, and even some AC use. I had the tires inflated to 37psi because of the load instead of my usual 34. Also interesting is this tank was Shell V-Power 93, filled up in Vermont where there is no <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2006\/06\/27\/ethanol-gas-problems\/\">ethanol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nMy milage has been much higher than usual this year, due in part to the commute from my new house that doesn&#8217;t have as much sitting in stopped traffic or high speeds as my old commute. While 04 and 05 I averaged almost exactly 24mpg, so far in 06 my average is 25.5mpg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve taken the opportunity to make a long-overdue update to my <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/gas.html\">gas milage charts<\/a>. We&#8217;ll see if the trend continues after my MINI goes in for Service II this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I achieved over 30mpg on a tank of gas for the first time! Driven mostly on highway and VT &#8220;back&#8221; roads (usually around 50mph), I achieved 30.49 mpg, as well as my longest range of 370.8 miles. This was despite my car being packed full with camping gear, spare wheel and a passenger, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}