Fuel Consumption From Our Summer Vacation

Viva our 1989 Toyota Corolla station wagon! Efficient little bullet.

Date	Gas	Trip	Rate	Total	Consumption
	(L)	(km)	($/L)	($)	(L/100km)
07/14/06	22.489	317.0	1.145	$25.75	7.094
07/14/06	36.792	465.5	1.040	$38.26	7.904
07/18/06	28.354	465.5	1.119	$31.73	6.091
07/21/06	17.183	266.0	1.199	$20.60	6.460
07/23/06	32.047	530.0	1.159	$37.14	6.047
07/24/06	27.547	423.5	1.119	$30.83	6.505
07/28/06	26.033	374.5	1.114	$29.00	6.951
07/28/06	34.675	588.5	1.219	$42.27	5.892
07/29/06	28.364	455.5	1.099	$31.17	6.227
Total Dollar Amount:				$286.75
Average Gas Mileage:				6.523	L/100km
(1 mile = 1.609 km, 1 US gal = 3.785 L):				37.593	mi/gal

old movies on my tv

I love spending evenings at home watching old movies. We have the Turner Classic Movies channel for a trial period on our digital cable package. I’m growing ever fonder of it. I hope I can get it when we get back to Nova Scotia.

Before I settled in on the old movie channel, I caught a bit of the coverage of todays NDP convention on CPAC. Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, delivered a speach to the convention delegates about climate change in general and Canada’s failure to commit to the Kyoto Protocol emission targets in specific. I can’t fathom the audacity of the Conservative Party to try and pull that shit on the Canadian public and expect to get away with it. There is no doubt a very strong western base of support for dismantling these international agreements but I just can’t see Upper Canada and Maritime support forthcoming.