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Old 12th January 2009 | 19:21
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bookworm
 
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There is little to recommend lean and mean in a small a/c, engines are too expensive, fuel not so much.
Yesterday I paid about $11/gal for gas in Germany. At that price, saving 2 gal per hour pays for a new engine in half its TBO.
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