From: "George M. Anderson" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jan Steinman wrote:
>
> The
> average SUV milage is currently only 14 mpg. I am not making this up!
City. And I doubt it's this low. For the big beasts: Tahoe, Navigator
etc, yes. But the cherokees, 4Runners et al are higher.
I will admit my source is biased (Solar Energy Research Institute),
and so probably used the most damning statistic they could find. On
the other hand, I have a Cherokee, and it only gets 17 mpg. (Hey,
enviros -- it was a graduation present! Honest! I'm gonna lose my
green credentials here! :-)
> FWIW: I drive a sort-of SUV that gets 30mpg on the highway.
Subarus ain't SUVs!
Before the term "SUV" was even coined, almost before they existed
(yes, I know the Cherokee and various International Harvesters have
been around forever), those who really NEEDED such a thing (vs. those
who are currently buying them just to take the kids to soccer) used a
4WD pickup and a canopy.
My "sort-of" SUV is a Ranger 4WD with a more-or-less permanently
attached cab-height steel canopy, a half-wide platform with drawers,
shelf with cabinets, curtains, lights, deep-cycle battery with
isolator and solar panel, and a DC to light ham radio set-up. I spent
winter weekends back there for seven years when not teaching skiing.
And if you stack 'em like cordwood, it'll take more kids to soccer
practice than modern SUVs. :-)
(BTW: a Subaru can get over 40 mpg. Be thankful they exist -- they
boost the non-passenger CAFE averages so people can get 14 mpg going
to soccer practice. :-)
See you in Canyonlands? :>)
If I take the running boards off. I optimized my sort-of SUV for snow
travel, rather than off-road travel, although it has hundreds of
miles of unimproved road use, some of it actually requiring 4WD.
Obligatory almost Olympus content: I got some great images of Mount
Hood last year while 4-wheeling on logging roads in my sort-of SUV.
There are a lot of great pictures out there where a "normal" car
can't go!
: Jan Steinman <mailto:Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Bytesmiths <http://www.bytesmiths.com>
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