Not getting Estimated MPG

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Originally Posted by Airstreamer67

I regularly meet or beat the EPA estimates by refusing to give in to road rage or to the Interstate wolf packs that push the speed limits by 10 mph or so.


My 2015 Mazda3 automatic is returning an 8000-mile lifetime average of 42mpg, spent mostly on the highway. That's one mpg better than the EPA highway estimate and is better than most Fuelly reports for the same car. I think those other owners are passing me in the wolf packs.

Cool. Of course, you pass the wolf packs when they are gassing up....AND you don't need to! Go to pure-gas.org to find 100% ethanol-free gasoline(E0). E0 should raise your mpg by 8% to 5% as compared to 10% ethanol blends(E10). Ethanol can only extract its energy efficiently when used in high compression ratio(16:1) ethanol engines. Used(NOT burned efficiently) in low 87 octane, low compression ratio(9:1 to 11:1) gasoline engines, ethanol fails.

[Airstreamer67]

I do use the nonspiked stuff in my gasoline generators and lawn equipment to keep it from gumming up the works. But when on the road in the car, I use the food-for-fuel stuff because it's everywhere and it's cheaper due to government mandates and tax dollar subsidies. Maybe one day reason will prevail and the government manipulators will stop tilting the playing board to satisfy the interest groups and their lobbyists. I know, Pollyanna just musing pipe dreams here.