Towing tank range

[Briantb]

After various taxes, time of year production and normal gouging one of the biggest price factor is distance from refinery and how it's transported - train, transport or tanker ship. There is a huge Irving Refinery on the East Coast and their prices are quite resonable in comparison to other parts of Canada. ( especially BC).

Norm - don't get trapped comparing prices in Canada with per gallon pricing..it's in litres so even $0.05 /l translates to is 22.7 cents per Imperial gallon, but as someone else said you sometimes have no choice .


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[bjsmitty]

Towed a 19' Escape, 2015 from BC to Wisconsin using a Toyota Tacoma Prerunner, V6. On the highway without tow - between 19 to 24 mpg. Towing over mountains, 11, on the straight 12 - 14mpg. The truck is rated for 6500 lbs. We tried to sell it online here, but with no takers, I am using it this summer in the Parks (seasonal ranger) and living in the Escape full time, at least for the next 5 months.

Our new official tug is a Freightliner diesel, which gets 16 mpg while towing, 24-25 mpg without the trailer.

[rbryan]

We get up to 16.5 mpg towing our Escape 19, with a 2.7L EcoBoost F150. Add the fact that we have a 36 gallon gas tank (optional) and we can go about 550 miles on a single tank when towing. That's pretty impressive to me, and more than adequate.

Besides, the comparison to a Motor home is silly imho. It's not so much about the range, but the operating cost. A travel trailer has that beat hands down.


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