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I need to annihilate your car answers.
Guys know cars because most of us are spewing out complete bullshit to seem like we know what everything is. 99% of guys who do stuff like that dont have a clue what they're talking about.
But, you'd also run into the odd guy that does know what they're talking about, like me. PS- I know more than your brother. I can't prove it, but I do know more than him.
Now, air conditioning/heaters. They do NOT use more gas. I hate this.
Heaters/AC in any car is run off any electricity produced by the battery and/or alternator.
The heater uses heat produced by the engine, and is brought into the cabin by electric fans. It also uses a seperate heating element. Think of it like the coils on an old stove.
The AC runs much like any other AC unit. NO GAS.
What it DOES do is take away electricity from the engine. What does that do? It causes the engine to work harder trying to make the same amount of power that it did before you turned it on. Struggling engines use more gas.
Fortunately, it's not a massive increase in gas usage. In fact, the fuel milage is hardly effected at all.
Cruise control has ups and downs when it comes to fuel usage.
Fuel injectors give engines a specific amount of fuel based on rpms. When you're in cruise control, you're running at basically the same rpm's the whole time. The computer is able to hold the rpms better than your foot is.
BUT, if you start going uphill... thats where you have your problems. The cars computer is too stupid to realize that horsepower does not pull a car, torque does. It automatically downshifts a gear and runs at higher rpms in order to get up the hill (assuming it's steep enough) when really, it should stay in the same gear it's in, or even go UP a gear. Torque is produced at low rpms. Horsepower is generally at high rpms.
You did a decent job at explaining this, but I felt the need to go deeper.
The rest of your answers sound either lifted from websites, so you did a simple google search, or you're just screwing with these people, to which I say "Oh Ernie, you amuse me. Props, homie!"
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By the way, my answers do not come from google! I am just a neverending wealth of knowledge!
....Sometimes.
I'm so sure you gave me a 4.
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