Well...
using US gallons and US miles, it gets about 53 mpg. Let's see... convert to UK gallons... ummm, miles in UK are equal to 1000 paces, or eight furlongs... it's not a full moon, so I don't need to multiply by that factor... ummm, there's shillings in here somewhere, I'm pretty sure, and a few stones...

I'm getting about 64 mpg UK, which is pretty damn good over here. I don't know what sort of mileage your cars typically get.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 7 Nov 2008, 14:57, 1 reply)

64mpg is pretty much as good as you'll get here too
you must be laughing as you drive circles (slowly) round your compatriots
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 15:00, closed)

They were laughing at me
when diesel fuel was so expensive, until I calculated the cost per mile of driving my car vs. theirs. A gasoline engine car typically gets about 30-35 mpg at best over here, where I get 53 mpg with the Weedeater. It works out that it costs me about 70% as much as it costs them to drive the same distance.

I think that when I can afford to do so, I'll replace the Weedeater with another diesel car. For one thing, one of the guys I work with brews his own biodiesel out of used cooking oil- if I can copy his setup, it will only cost me about a buck a gallon, instead of about three bucks. He uses his to heat his house and run his tractor.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 7 Nov 2008, 15:05, closed)

woohoo
Props for the Soul Coughing reference
(unclestinky, Sat 8 Nov 2008, 16:06, closed)