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Re:Software will eat software in a remote-first world by ajuc on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:36AM (#23301535)
TBH American cars are still crazy inefficient from my (European) perspective :)

And oil prices are another way to regulate that. In my country oil price at the station is over 70% taxes.

Re:Software will eat software in a remote-first world by donw on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:13AM (#23307347)
> TBH American cars are still crazy inefficient from my (European) perspective :)

Well, we can't all have Volkswagen do our emissions testing. :)

Why would you say "crazy inefficient"? I don't think that, say, a VW 1.8L is, practically speaking, any more or less efficient than a Ford or Toyota 1.8L. A Ford Focus gets comparable gas mileage to, say, a Golf or a Mazda3.

The Golf has a better interior, but will also fall apart much sooner -- VW in the US has a shockingly bad reputation for reliability and customer service. Which sucks, because I really prefer VW's design language to pretty much any other brand.

You might on average drive smaller cars in the cities, but that's more of a preference issue than