CAFE math

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Mon, 12/31/2007 - 12:56am

From Marginal Revolution :

Via Andrew Sullivan, Eric dePlace notes that "You save more fuel switching from a 15 to 18 mpg car than switching from a 50 to 100 mpg car." And so you do.

A 15 MPG car would require 1,000 gallons of gas to drive 15,000 miles while an 18MPG car could get it done in just 833 gallons.

That saves 167 gallons of gasoline. By contrast, since a...



 

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