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Re: [PLUG] Survey: who drives a stick shift?
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- From: "Randy Schmidt" <randy@umlatte.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Survey: who drives a stick shift?
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:21:25 -0400
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When I was a structural engineer in a ~50 person engineering firm,
about 70% of the people drove manuals (including myself (and my wife))
... so maybe a broader generalization can be made :-P
On 10/4/07, Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> wrote:
> 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.
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