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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by samatman on Friday July 30, 2021 @02:51PM (#28011042)
It isn't if you know the capacity of your tank in gallons, and want to know how far you can drive on average before refilling it.

Or if you know the price of gasoline, and want to know how far you can drive for some amount of money.

In fact I'm struggling to come up with practical circumstances where gallons per 100 miles is what I'd want to know, could you explain why that seems better to you?

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by caturopath on Friday July 30, 2021 @03:55PM (#28011718)
Fuel economy is typically printed the same place range already is computed =)

mpg is used to indicate fuel economy, comparing among cars. People might think -- do think -- that the difference between a 15mpg car and a 25mpg car is similar to the difference between a 25mpg car and a 35mpg car. But the difference is nowhere close in amount of gas saved per year of similar driving between the two. The former is a great boon to the environment and the pocketbook, but the latter is much more modest.

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by cs2733 on Friday July 30, 2021 @03:18PM (#28011327)
In Portugal (and I guess several other countries) fuel economy is defined as "how many liters per 100 km?". In Brazil it's "how many km per liter?".
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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by neolog on Friday July 30, 2021 @03:24PM (#28011371)
> Equal increases in MPG are not equal in gas savings.

http://www.mpgillusion.com/p/what-is-mpg-illusion.html

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