2008/04/22
Labels: gasoline, motorcycle, prices, r1150rt, bmw, bay-area
Filled up my friend's BMW R1150RT motorcycle yesterday. Here's how much it cost to fill up a motorcycle in the San Francisco Bay Area:
| Total distance traveled on a tank of gas | 192 miles |
| Gallons of Gasoline | 5.088g |
| Price per gallon | $3.939 |
| Fill up total | $20.04 |
| Gasoline Type | Unleaded - Regular |
| Gas Station | 76 station |
| Miles per gallon | 37.7 MPG |
That driving was mostly highway driving around the bay area highways. It inclluded driving over the Bonny Doon mountain roads in San Lorenzo valley in Santa Cruz, California.
Maybe I could improve my gas mileage by slowing down: The extra cost of gasoline for driving fast
Questions answered:
- How many miles per gallon does a motorcycle get?
- How many MPG does a BMW motorcycle get?
- How many MPG does a large touring motorcycle get?
Went to see this movie last night. It's a very interesting documentary by Ben "Clear Eyes" Stein about how dissent and discussion is being squashed in the scientific community when it comes to the debate about Intelligent Design vs. Evolution. He interviews a number of scientists who have been fired, black-listed, denied tenure, and discriminated against for any involved with Intelligent Design, no matter how slight. He interviews scientists on both sides of the debate, such as Richard Dawkins who brags about how science ruined his faith in God, and now he's going to make sure he ruins the faith of everyone else. He talks to some very thoughtful scientists who talk about the problems with Darwin's evolution theory being stretched from being a "theory of how species adapt" to a "theory of how all species came from a common ancestor". Ben Stein then tours the German concentration camps, and shows the how the Nazi's took Darwin's theories and applied them to human populations, the survival of the fittest, and the elimination of whoever they deemed to be "unfit".
He talks about eugenics and how Planned Parenthood continues to promote these ideas. He uses the metaphor of the Berlin Wall, and lots of old time video footage, to illustrate the idea of the wall that has been put up in science where scientists aren't allowed to mention Intelligent Design, or how it guides their research, without risking their careers. We're only supposed to look at the "man's reason, and blind chance, are supreme" side of the wall. Well worth seeing.
