Oil firms slash U.S. Gulf of Mexico output by 91% ahead of Hurricane Ida

Re:Oil firms slash U.S. Gulf of Mexico output by 91% ahead o... by southerntofu on Sunday August 29, 2021 @05:47AM (#28345471)

I entirely agree with your analysis, the "new car efficiency" pitch is outright propaganda from the industry, pretty much like in the PC world where running old machines is usually (unless running 24/7 at full power) much more energy-efficient (and cheaper) than buying a new one.

Just wanted to point out "mpg" and other american-centric units left me confused and i had to look it up. Spelling it out would have helped me understand, coming from Europe where we used standard decimal units. For anecdote, the domain where Europe doesn't use a decimal system is time. A decimal calendar was introduced during the French revolution, but shortly removed from history (like many other progresses of that era): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

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Re:Oil firms slash U.S. Gulf of Mexico output by 91% ahead o... by Teknoman117 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @05:51AM (#28345482)

That’s fair.

I had written it out initially, but it ended up appearing enough times it felt redundant. I should still have know better though, considering I work with a bunch of European expats who constantly poke at me for it. I then have to remind them that Fahrenheit was a Polish born German living in the Netherlands at the time he came up with the unit :)

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