For those of you struggling with high gasoline costs:

[Redstone]

Boeing 747 fuel consumption is about 5 gallons per mile.

So, for bushyboy to run away from Cindy and you other folks, from DC to Texas, then Colorado and back to DC, figure a total of about 2,000 miles, or ten thousand gallons of Jet A. If Jet A is three bucks a gallon (and you can bet the ultra-filtered version that goes into Air Force One costs a lot more than that ), that's thirty thousand bucks worth for that one little trip.

If you drive a car that averages 20 miles per gallon, you'd get two hundred thousand miles out of that much gasoline; ten years worth of above-average travel of twenty thousand miles a year.

And bushyboy burned that much in one weekend. For nothing.

Don't you feel so much better now?

Redstone

[Cobalt Violet]

1. As long as kids don't have to go to school to conserve I do. n/t

[FloridaPat]

2. Impossible. Almost the same as a corvette. OK, joking.

No way. It has to be over 100 gal/mile. The thing has 4 engines. It holds thousands of pounds of jet fuel.

[Redstone]

4. Ah, but it travels a mile very quickly.

That five gallons gets gone about faster than you can blink.

Redstone

[FloridaPat]

7. Here we go: 58.6 gallons per minute.

3517 gallons per hour. $7224 operating costs per hour based on 1999 figures.

360 miles per hour - 6 miles per minute. About 10 miles per gallon

Edit because of crummy math.

http://www.atac.ca/About_The_Industry/Aircraft_Operating_Statistics.html

[titoresque]

3. hey thanks

:yoiks:

[niallmac]

5. Boeing Inc says:

" A Boeing 747 filled with passengers to only 75 percent capacity is more fuel-efficient than an automobile with a driver and one passenger in terms of fuel burn per passenger mile. Hard to believe, isn't it?" Kinda, but lets say it's true. Dubya needs to take us along with him to make it more economical. I'd love to go and look at our problems from 35,000 feet and eat his pretzels and wait for him to fall asleep and take a pillow and....never mind.

[karlrschneider]

6. Those figures are fairly accurate, but AF1 doesn't carry anything like

75% of capacity of a 747. Isn't the current one a Dash-400? I'm not sure...need to check. Anyway there probably aren't more than 50 or 60 SOBs when it flies.

hmmm

edit: sorry, SOBs is pilot/plane talke for Souls on Board.

[Redstone]

9. AF1 may not have as many pax, but it's got tons and TONS

more electronics (and fancy furnishings) than a standard 747.

Redstone

[karlrschneider]

12. Yes, of course, which is why it CAN'T carry 400 pax.

that was kinda my point. I was just agreeing with the typical evaluation of fuel per passenger mile a 747 -can- get...

[Seansky]

8. sure, much better

[IN-dem]

10. Thats probably why he was on the teeeveee today telling us

not to drive... We neeeeeed to conserve so he can fly. sorry a little humor there.

[LittleClarkie]

11. Not exactly sacrificing, is he

Gee, I'm so disappointed that he doesn't practice what he preaches.