Bad fuel mileage in cold weather?

Anyone else notice that? I can never seem to get anything better than 6 miles per gallon when it's below zero, even when it's not really windy. Then a week later down in Florida I'm getting 8.7. And when it goes cold and windy, ooh boy... right now I'm making my way across Iowa, heavy, -6 and 20mph sidewind, and I'm going broke at 4 mpg.

Anyone else notice the cold weather bad mileage? And if so, any idea why?

 

I'm not even talking about idling. This is raw highway mileage, after a fill up.

 

Yeah, good point. I didn't know anti gel fuel makes you get worse mileage. It probably doesn't help that I dumped an entire bottle of antigel into already pre-treated TA fuel...

 

And what a good point about always headwind or crosswind. What's with that, lol? Statistically shouldn't it be tailwind once in awhile... But it never is.

 

Yeah, TA told me their fuel is rated for 10f, forecast said 0, so I dumped some extra anti-gel to be sure. Half of the whole parking lot at Wolcott Petro was having a hard time starting because it was in the thirties in the evening when they went to sleep. And everyone's brakes were stuck.

 

Just get under there and hit the brakes with that hammer, no needs to get help.