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Interesting engine?
Roger wrote: On 20 Dec 2005 06:23:01 -0800, wrote: ... It is never true that driving 2% farther with a improvement in economy of 10% will result in more gas being used. That isn't quite what I read out of the OP. I may have misread it ... OP was columnist George Will. As I recall he wrote that for every 10% improvement in fuel economy Americans drive 2% farther. Therefore that imprevement MAY (or might) result in more fuel use. His use of the conditional indicates that he didn't even know how to do arithmetic. That a supposedly intelligent person would publish such a statement is a sad commentary on the level of education in our society. Your other comments, about how the _price_ of fuel is plainly the more important factor regarding fuel usage, are well-taken. -- FF |
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