Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money
by CydeWeys on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:48AM
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You're vastly underestimating just how many people own massive inefficient pickup trucks and SUVs that they use for every trip. Maybe you happen to live in a part of the country where this problem isn't particularly bad, but the other parts of the country are driving that average down.
Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money
by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:49AM
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You're not understanding. The commuting miles saved by working from home is not going to be a cross section of the commuting population and the bits that are over-represented are going to be the white collar employees who skew toward more efficient vehicles so you have to pad the fuel economy or carbon estimates to reflect that.
Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money
by vel0city on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:18PM
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I look in high class parking garages around me, and easily 1/3 of the cars are giant pickup trucks. Around here, tons of people will regularly buy a giant cab truck with a 6ft bed they'll mostly use to commute to an office job.
Welcome to Texas.
You need a heck of a lot of 10-15mpg vehicles to drag the fleet average down to 22. Most white collar employees who own trucks aren't commuting in them and even then there's more people commuting in 40+mpg subcompacts and hybrids so it should more than balance out.
Look at a high class parking garage, 22mpg just doesn't pencil out. 28-30mpg sounds believable.