primitives think in gallons per mile

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x165162

Oh my.

The things the primitives think of.

phantom power  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-31-08 12:19 PM
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U.S. drivers should think in gallons per mile: report
   
I heard this guy on NPR a couple weeks ago. Although I think his point is useful, I couldn't help thinking that it can be even more economical to, say, replace 10mpg with 50mpg. Or, replace 10mpg with a bicycle.

"There is a math illusion here," said Richard Larrick, a management professor at Duke University, whose research appears in the journal Science.

Larrick said most people think improvements in miles per gallon are all the same, where a 5 gallon per mile improvement would yield the same gas savings in a car that gets 10 miles per gallon or 20 miles per gallon. (One mile equals 1.61 kilometers, and one U.S. gallon equals 3.79 liters.)

"The reality that few people appreciate is that improving fuel efficiency from 10 to 20 miles per gallon is actually a more significant savings than improving from 25 to 50 miles per gallon for the same distance of driving," Larrick said.

link to yahoonews posted by the primitive doesn't work

Warpy  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-31-08 12:36 PM
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1. Or: how to justify driving that H2 instead of a surplus HMV from a military base.

While it's true that going from 10 MPG to 20 MPG will save more gallons of fuel over 50 miles than going from 25 MPG to 50 MPG will, shouldn't the focus be on going from 10 MPG all the way to 40 MPG? That one is entirely possible with no loss of anything but macho image.

That H2 will make a fine chicken coop.

[Flame]

Can someone translate that into something that makes sense to us normal type people?  I, for the life me, can't figure out what the heck the OP is trying to say.

[Chris_]

Can someone translate that into something that makes sense to us normal type people?  I, for the life me, can't figure out what the heck the OP is trying to say.

They are saying what they say about anything that they don't like.  They think that changing the name or description of a particular agenda item will change the way people think about it.

Kind of like changing "abortion" into "reproductive rights" ......It's a "sound bite" mentality..........

doc

[DarkHalo]

Given the chance 100 out of 100 libs would be all over that H2 like a bum on a ham sandwich. They just see it as 'kEwL' to slam SUV's every chance they get. It makes them look more 'enlightened' to their fellow primitives.

[Zeus]

Can someone translate that into something that makes sense to us normal type people?  I, for the life me, can't figure out what the heck the OP is trying to say.

Someone unable to dazzle folks with their Brilliance is trying to baffle them with BS. It worked at the dump. Some self appointeed Einstein is arguing percentages to argue for (I'm not sure) ????????