Cost of driving in SA

I just got back from a 10K trip.

All of the gas bills that I could account for totaled R3,000.

?Can that be correct in a Renault clio with manual?

Payment in CASH was a headache.

Doug Clark

beulavillencm schreef:
> It was 10,000 km
> (I have found 5 travel days with no gas purchase)
> If I missed 5 fill ups at R200, then the total is R4,000.
> This would put the MPG at between 35 and 40.
> ?Is this a reasonable MPG for the Renault in SA at the speed limit
> with mainly highway travel?

Why do you care? You have travelled there and hopefully enjoyed it. I
suppose you have only filled the car up when it was (nearly) empty. You
can't put fuel into the tanks if there is no room. So, you must have
used the amount you have bought.

Fuel is very inexpensive in South Africa as it is in the US. So who
cares? South African may have a different opinion, but they don't have
to pay the R13.5 per liter we pay here in Europe. :-)

Regards,
Hans

P.s. Besides Americans, nobody in the world counts in Miles per Gallon.
We only know kilomters and liters. :-)))

Liz Leyden schreef:
>>> P.s. Besides Americans, nobody in the world counts in Miles per Gallon.
>>> We only know kilomters and liters. :-)))
>> Not so Hans. The British still talk in MPG as well. :-o
> That's very true, and mph as well, but we have to buy the stuff in
> litres. Don't get me started!

Yes, officially the Brits are metric as well. But hey, half of them
doesn't know that yet and the other half doesn't want to know. :-)))

I guess the Brits will start using metrics as normal once they have
gotten used to the Euro instead of the Pound. :-)))

Officially it is only the US, Liberia and Myanmar that still use the old
non-metric system. And of course it is still used in aviation an marine
matters. Although on sea we have different miles. Just as US and
Imperial gallons are different. Must be really hard to be a kid in
school trying to learn all these different measures. Things even get
"better" when you start calculating areas, let alone adding another
dimension for contents. :-)

BTW even in our metric system over here we still use inches as a measure
for the size of a computer screen.

Regards,
Hans

Since the poster wondered if he got good 'mileage' - a term widely
understood and more manageable than 'kilometerage', let me
chime in and say 'yes' he did. I use about 6 to 6.5 litres per 100 km in
my
VW Golf station wagon around the area, and all the neighbors assume
that I must not drive like a real South African. On hiway
driving, it's closer to 5.5. litres per 100 km.