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Re:Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Sa... by pjc50 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @07:53AM (#42440964)
Per https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/61b7e040e90e0... the average UK car MPG is ~50mpg, so even allowing for the difference in US and UK gallons a 22.5mpg vehicle is colloquially a "gas guzzler" by our standards.

> What may be true is that there is a national policy to keep fuel prices as low as possible, for a myriad of reasons, with one side effect of that policy being that it has enabled people to buy larger less fuel-efficient cars.

Yes. Americans have always had cheap fuel and it's shaped the entire society around it.

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Re:Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Sa... by snakeyjake on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @11:14AM (#42442588)
In Britain, a Standard Imperial Gallon is 120% the size of a Standard US Gallon.

So while the fuel economy is higher in the UK, it isn't as high as it first appears.

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