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B11-Wednesday, June 4, 1980 - North Shore News

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Fuel economy can improve your gas mileage

Canadian consumers
could save an estimated 2.1
bilhon gallons (9.5 billion
litres) of gasoline worth
nearly $2.4 bilhon if all cars
on the road were as fuel
efficient as the 1980 models.
according to an automobile
industry executive.

The new generation of
fuel-efficient) cars of the
1980's provides Canada and
Canadian consumers a
umique opportumitty to work
toward a national goal of
energy self-sufficiency, says
Ford of Canada president
Roy F. Bennett “The ten
milhon cars on the road in
Canada today would con
sume 21. bilhon fewer
gallons of gasoline in one
year alone, if they

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fuel economy of 1980 cars,”
he said

Fuel-economy  improve-
ments in the company's
1980-model cars and trucks
alone are projected to save

consumers more than $18
million in fuel costs and
comserve more than 18

milhon gallons (81.8 htres) of
gasoline per year, he added.

Ford of Canada, with a
corporate average fuel
economy of an estimated
202 miles per inpenal
gallon (10.8 htres per 100
kiuometres), has enjoyed a
1S per cent improvement in
its fleet average over 1979.
“To the best of my know-
ledge. that is the best per-
formance of any domestic
in the indus-

try.” Mr. Bennett said. “That
1S particularly important if
Canada is to achieve a goal
of reducing our dependence
on foreign oil.

“We are particularly
proad of our leadership in
the area of fuel economy,”
Mr. Bennett added, “and
savings we think this means
for consumers.”’ For
example, he said, the owner
of a four or five-year-old
automobile could save from
$400 to $600 annually in fuel
alone by trading up to a 1980
model.

Mr. Bennett provided an
Ulustration of how improved
fuel efficiency has more than
offset the higher pnee of
gasobne:

“In 1975, when unleaded

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parative statistics show that
m March 1980

had increased to 63 per cent

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showed
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gasoline cost, on average,
about 80 cents per gallon, |
would have used 363 gallons
of gas for a total expenditure
of $290 to drive a new
Thunderbird the 4.725 mile
Trans-Canada Highway from
Victona, B.C. to St. John’s,
Nfld.

“If I drove the same dis-
tance today in a comparable
1980 model Thunderbird or
Cougar XR-7, even with
gasoline at prices averaging
$1.15 per gallon, I would
spend*just $217 and use only
190 gallons of gasoline.

“For the consumer,
Savings would be

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despite the 42 per cent in-
crease in the price of gas
over that five-year period,
and the savings in fuel
consumption would be a
significant 173 gallons.”

Mr. Bennett said the 1m-
proved fuel efficiency of
Ford’s 1980 model cars and
trucks would continue to
provide annual savings to
consumers. “The owner of a
1975-model Ford LTD or
Mercury Marquis, based on
average driving of 12,000
miles, would use 833 gallons
of gasoline at a cost of

approximately $900.
“With a 1980-model LTD

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or Marquis, which have a
combined city/highway
rating 25.2 miles per gallon
fuel consumption for 12,000
mules would be reduced to
476 gallons at a cost of
approximately $500.

“The savings to the con-
sumer would be $400 in the
first year, or approximately
$1,600 over the four years
that the average person
keeps a care before trading,”
Mr. Bennett said.

Pitch-in ‘80
Keep

Canada
Beautiful

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1175 W. 15TH ST.

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