I'm Just Sayin' #58

[loosechanj]

So supposedly this crazy whacko astronaut chick drove from Houston to Orlando wearing a diaper so she wouldn't have to stop? I wanna know what kinda car she drove, that can go 950 miles without a fillup.

Comments

[pdx6.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the exact same freaking thing. I bet she calculated out exactly how much fuel she would need to get to a certain filling station before going bone dry in her tank. I figure she had to do that at least twice: not many cars can get 425/tank. My Subaru does 350/tank, and maybe a bit more if I wanted to go for broke.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I really doubt you could get that precise. YMMV and all. I've driven 1,000 miles damn near non-stop myself, it took 20 hours with stops only for gas, bathroom, and one BK run which I ate in the car while driving. But I'm a dude, chicks always seem to need to stop and pee like every other mile.

[pdx6.livejournal.com]

Still, I think you should wear diapers when driving anyway. Like mom said, always wear clean diapers...

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

But what do you do if you shit in them?

[seahorsemystic.livejournal.com]

my husband pees more than I on long road trips. I refuse to drink anything though, just so I can get there without having to stop often. So, I guess I am more of a dude and my husbands more of a chick.

[travisd.livejournal.com]

Dude, she's a chick -- and chicks *hate* using gas station restrooms, ya know.

[teh-dirty-robot.livejournal.com]

As a chick, I'd rather use a gas station restroom than crap myself, kthx.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

But would you drive 950 miles planning to murder your lover's other love interest? There's a reason they say "batshit insane" after all.

[teh-dirty-robot.livejournal.com]

Probably easier to murder the lover, dontcha think?

Having said that, no. Driving 950 miles totally counts as premeditation.

[seahorsemystic.livejournal.com]

I never minded using gas station bathrooms because if they are that disgusting, I will just piss on the floor. :D

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

950 miles (~1,500km) without stopping, hmm.

Assuming a really fuel-efficient (and for European, not US, values of) car, say 5lt/100km (47mpg), it would need 75lt (19 gallons) of fuel. Now the only problem is that cars that fuel-efficient tend to be rather tiny and need to be light, thus usually have 45lt tanks (sometimes upgradable to 55lt).

But ok, we Europeans can get even weirder, f'rex Volkswagen built the VW Lupo 3L, the "3L" meaning a fuel-consumption of 3lt/100km (diesel, of course, as that holds about 13 % more energy than regular petrol), which should be about 78mpg. The downside being that the tank only holds 32lt, with tricks you can get in up to 40 - still not possible to drive 950 miles with that, that'd need 45lt of (diesel) fuel.

There was even a prototype of a 1lt/100km car (IIRC also from Volkswagen), but it never made it into production because of the downsides (expensive, carries only a single person, and only reaches the 1lt/100km mark at a steady 90kph). And it had a, IIRC, 8 or 12lt tank.

So I say: bullshit, not doable. At least not in a standard vehicle.