Dan Fixes Coin-OpsMar 23
Dear england, greetings and here is my latest report from america, everybody is very angry right now because their petrol has jumped up to their equivalent of 79p a litre which is the most it's been by quite a lot
Show threadDan Fixes Coin-OpsMar 23

🐰 Holy shit Dan so petrol is basically free there, I bet nobody ever worries about not affording filling up their tank huh,

🦝 25 miles per gallon is pretty normal here

🐰 oh

🦝 because of decades of basically-free petrol

🐰 oh.

Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Mar 23

@ifixcoinops 25MPG isn't just normal, that was considered good until fairly recently.

My backup vehicle barely gets 18, but that's why it's my backup vehicle.

Heck, when I had my Smart fortwo in 2010 or so I was averaging ~30 MPG, and that was remarkably efficient for any car in the US at the time.

Show threadVenya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦

@ajroach42 @ifixcoinops

It's so weird. I remember our '93 Geo Metro getting 48mpg. It was small and gutless but actually pleasant to drive, a great car. I suspect improvements in car fuel efficiency has been more than overbalanced by people preferentially buying SUVs and trucks that are under different rules.

Even our 2013 minivan gets about 25 on the highway. My 2019 Corolla gets 40+ on trips.

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Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Mar 23
@venya @ifixcoinops We had a Prius C for a while. It was nominally 50MPG.
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Mar 23

@venya @ifixcoinops I had intended to make that part of a larger thought, and then I didn't.

Prius C, nominally 50MPG.

It replaced a chevy cavalier, that barely got 20.

Show threadqwazixMar 23

@ajroach42 @venya @ifixcoinops I had a car that did 24 mpg in 2005 and I decided to ditch it because it burned a lot.

It's 1.5-2.0€ per liter here though, and that's why all those "efficiency" regulations do nothing about the CO² in the atmosphere. People will burn what they can afford, just like induced demand in freeways.

Show threadCharles ☭  is a Green2d ago

@ajroach42 @venya @ifixcoinops

I didn't buy a Prius in 1999 because it got the same mileage as a diesel bug, which was also a lot lighter, perversely had a large cargo capacity (with the seats folded down) and included less ewaste. Also, I ran the bug on soybean oil.

Hybrids kind of seemed like a scam at the time, tbh.

I felt so virtuous in my fashionable car. Before I lived in a place with reasonable public transport and decided that virtually all private cars are a scam.