Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Drop 'miles per gallon' as fuel measure,.."
I'm often skeptical of "green" ideas, but this one seems to be a reasonable idea...
Tom Chivers has the story in the U.K. Telegraph:
"The panel urged that fuel use be displayed as fuel consumed - perhaps as volume of fuel used per 100 miles - alongside the traditional miles-per-gallon measure. This standard is used already in Europe, with fuel use being given in terms of litres used per 100 kilometres travelled.
An environmental motoring website, GreenCarReports.com, welcomed the move, saying that it had been calling for the change for over a year and describing the mpg measure as "stupid". It asks the question: 'Do you save more gasoline by going from 10 to 20 mpg, or going from 33 to 50 mpg?'"
