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Old 09-16-2012, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by tombanjo
The next time you complain about fuel it could always be worse. Consider that the cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
I dont think this is possible .

1 gallon to 6 inches =

2 gallons per foot =

10560 gallons per mile

Figure roughtly 3000 miles between NY and UK

That would be 31.6 MILLION gallons to cross the atlantic

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