| Stephen Gran on 4 Oct 2007 20:13:48 -0000 |
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 02:53:31PM -0400, Edward Smola said: > > On Oct 4, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > > > >%!PS; I find it somewhat pathetic that in the US, 30 MPG is > >considered "excellent" mileage. I was driving around the UK almost > >a year > >ago in a Ford diesel minivan (not a small car!) that got in excess > >of 40 MPG. > >There is absolutely no reason why we shouldn't be able to do this > >in the US. > > US car milage does suck but you need to compare the same unit. > 1 US gallon is only 0.83 british imperial gallon. > > 30 mpg us / .83 ~= 36 mpg british. Except that they sell 'petrol' in 'litres' over here, so you're doing the conversion yourself, and you get to pick which gallon to convert to. That being said, I do agree that I have gotten quite a lot better mileage in all the rental cars here than I was used to in the States - 40mpg is not unusual. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | REST: P: Linus Torvalds S: | | steve@lobefin.net | Buried alive in email -- from | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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