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"traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn" (el-peasant) 06/13/2015 at 16:06 • Filed to: None

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If you idle a car for 5 minutes straight, it gets worse gas mileage than if you floor it while moving for 5 minutes straight.

Coty > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/13/2015 at 16:08

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Actually they’d be the same, because you wouldn’t have gone anywhere.

traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn > Coty 06/13/2015 at 16:11

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Floor it while moving ? You would definitely go somewhere.

LongbowMkII > Coty 06/13/2015 at 16:11

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it’d be worse, running at higher rpms wil naturally burn more fuel.

PS9 > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/13/2015 at 16:15

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MPG = D(distance)/G(gallons of gas consumed)

If D = zero miles, 0/X will always be zero. Idling, WOT, it doesn’t matter. Anything you do with your car that doesn’t involve movement but does involve a running engine will always result in 0 MPG.

traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn > PS9 06/13/2015 at 16:16

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I should change my post to say floor it while moving.

Blondude > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/13/2015 at 16:19

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Yup, math works like that.

PS9 > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/13/2015 at 16:20

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I didn’t assume you meant otherwise.

Buick Mackane > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/13/2015 at 18:56

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Let’s get this straight. Maybe you should rephrase this by saying any car that is running at idle, (for any length of time) gets less MPG than any car traveling at full throttle. Do you really think nobody else know this already?

Buick Mackane > Coty 06/13/2015 at 18:57

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You are totally 100% incorrect.

Coty > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/13/2015 at 22:17

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siq edit

Coty > Buick Mackane 06/13/2015 at 22:18

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He edited it. The way he had it written before made it sound like they were both parked. In that case, your fuel usage would be different, but your miles per gallon would still be 0.

TheOnelectronic > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/13/2015 at 23:14

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I tried to figure out my mileage if I let it idle WITH THE ENGINE OFF!

My calculator didn’t like that.