Gallons per mile?

I say that this is retarded. I see their point, but its not that meaningful and its also not what people are used to. It would just cause confusion and make it harder for people to compare to older cars. This is just two guys trying to be clever, when really it amounts to nothing.

Get metric,
Reduce effort, crashes in space,
USA will decline to British way of life via the Slug under your Foot system.

Surprise Surprise...

First, watch this Reuters news clip:
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrxfMz2eDME&w=640&h=360]

Then, read this article:
http://www.checktheevidence.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=182&Itemid=60

Just what I was thinking. Europe has been doing this for years, just in metric. Nothing really new.

As someone currently involved in a research study on fuel economy and corporate auto fleets, I can say the difference between mpg and gpm is huge when multiplied. Some may say the difference seems trivial, but when multiplied by the thousands of miles you drive per year, or the hundreds of cars in a large corporate fleet, or the millions of cars on the American roads, the difference adds up.

There are also major policy implications. Our government is pushing for super-efficient vehicles and making pie-in-the-sky promises about energy independence. But, those policies come with high prices and often rely on still undeveloped technology. Using gpm shows us we're better off focusing on getting the worst vehicles off the road rather than trying to get a 33 mpg car to get 50 mpg.

As a side note, since this article was about math, did anyone else notice the math error? 10 gallons minus 6.7 gallons is 3.3 gallons, not 3.4.

Dependence on oil is so that US economy which is the world leading economy seems so fragile or it is just speculation of price guaging on statment of strike in Nigeria, or rumors of strike on Iran. Everytime there is news on threat on oil producing country , price in US go up and when there is news about increse oil prodcution then still it rises. It seems that there is nothing much is being moniotred by Fed/State to control the threat or production increase. To me, it is like ever incresing price, irrespective of any news.
Is it totaly ignoring civics or business??

After spending a fair amount of time in Europe it astounds me how fortunate we Americans have been. Gas and food and fuel in the US are Better and cheaper than Europeans citizen's realize.
Now the strategy for lowering gas prices in America.
1. Reduce the speed limit to 45 MPH. Gas savings here
2. Heavily promote scooters, cycles and bicycles as alternatives to gas guzzlers – Reduced gas consumption here.
3. US automakers focus on High mpg vehicles already being produced. Gas savings here too
New industries will flourish, big auto will adjust quickly and should fall in line. All this could be done at the drop of a hat. What say AC ?

This is just a stupid way of confusing the math so a professor can publish a paper. It doesn't matter how much gas I'm burning when I really can't afford to drive in the first place.

As a follow-up to my earlier post, Prof. Larrick pointed out that the CAFE standards use the harmonic mean. Because of this, CAFE effectively already uses GPM rather than MPG in its formula.

Fuel efficiency has been described as litres/100km here in Canada for as long as I can remember. One day, sooner rather than later, the U.S. should get with the program!

@Joe from florida:

You have to be kidding: 45 MPH speed limits? The police will love you for that, but it won't save much gas and would probably cost lives. Scooters? Ever try to strap a baby to a scooter? Ever try to ride one in Detroit or Chicago during the winter? These things might be fine for a Del Webb retirement community in the sunbelt, but America is a big country.

I agree with you 100% on promoting the high MPG vehicles already being produced, but I have a feeling that $4 gas is promoting them all on its own.

This is sort of a useless comparison. Obviously a 15mpg car is more efficient than a 10mpg car but the 50mpg car is the best. I don't think anybody is wondering which one of their cars to replace, they're just going to get the most efficient car and drive that one.

You could ration, one Slug per week, second Slug at twice the price. .. ...

Or, go electric, throw away your engine and gas tank
uTube; Electric Car in-wheel motor Siemens eCorner
Mitsubishi Wheel Motor

Power from battery, fuel cell, diesel electric, solar cell, exercise bike

Otherwise, invade Canada, Mexico, Iran, Venezuella, Saudi Arabia . ..

I want CNN to know about the air car being brought first to India, runs at 65 mph on 2 liters of compressed air

You can leanr more about it at different spots on the web, One spo is www,youtube,com/watch?v=QmqpGZvOY14.

No one ever takes over the air but the will if it is corn, etc.

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