High gas consumption

1995 PONTIAC GRAND AM
274,000 MILES
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MISSYCHANEY
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There is a strong gas smell, rough idle and popping when accelerating ....This stops when the car reaches 50 plus miles? 95 Pontiac Grand Am (manual trans)car was running rough and gradually getting worse so we replaced spark plugs ... this didn't work changed the 2 ignition switches under spark plugs ...baffled at the change in gas consumption and strong gas smell ....went from getting 350 miles to a tank to 125 ?
Jan 7, 2012 at 10:37 PM
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SATURNTECH9
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Do you have any codes?
Jan 7, 2012 at 10:45 PM
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DGRIFFIN123
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That exact same thing happened to my ford probe, I never figured out what was wrong with it
Jan 10, 2012 at 8:22 PM
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