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  1. What's all this talk about a troll? Maybe it has something to do with some
    blowhard I filtered out about a year ago.

    I've got more time to email more important stuff. I just emailed The
    Tonight Show's site asking Jay leno (who regularly spends six figures on
    vehicles) that it might be fun instead to spend a little cash custom
    building the world's most fuel efficient vehicle - a fuel cell powered
    recumbent streamliner. Across the US on "a gallon of gas" is the slogan.

    It is a shot in the dark, but at least it isn't feeding trolls.

    --
    Robert Haston
    Satellite Beach, FL

  2. "Robert Haston" <[email hidden]> wrote

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    a fuel cell powered recumbent streamliner.
    Across the US on "a gallon of gas" is the slogan.

    Hmmm,....

    transcontinental route =~ 3000 miles/crossing
    biking =~ 50 calories/mile (non-streamlined)
    fat =~ 3500 calories/lbs

    =~ 150,000 calories/crossing
    =~ 43 fat lbs/crossing

    Water's about 8 lbs/gallon and fat's lighter than water, so...

    "Across the US on about 5 gallons of fat!"

    (or about 300 large 500 calories/servings of fast food fries)

    Jon Meinecke

  3. I agree Across America on X pounds of fat would be good too. 50 calories
    per mile (1,000 calories per hour) is really hammering (or a big person, or
    a mountain bike, etc.) If you really played the game like a horse race,
    picking a very small person who was very aerobically efficient, a very
    slippery vehicle, a slow speed, and subtracted the rider's base metabolic
    rate, you might pull off "Crossing America on 10 pounds of fat".

    "Jon Meinecke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    "Robert Haston" <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:


    a fuel cell powered recumbent streamliner.
    Across the US on "a gallon of gas" is the slogan.

    Hmmm,....

    transcontinental route =~ 3000 miles/crossing
    biking =~ 50 calories/mile (non-streamlined)
    fat =~ 3500 calories/lbs

    =~ 150,000 calories/crossing
    =~ 43 fat lbs/crossing

    Water's about 8 lbs/gallon and fat's lighter than water, so...

    "Across the US on about 5 gallons of fat!"

    (or about 300 large 500 calories/servings of fast food fries)

    Jon Meinecke

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