[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: Tata reveals the world's cheapest car

[Bob Korves]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reuben Deumling" <9watts at gmail.com>
To: "Benjamin Pratt" <prattb at uwstout.edu>; "Greenbuilder list" 
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Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: Tata reveals the world's cheapest 
car


> If we're talking about cars, I'd hesitate to call anything that gets 50mpg
> 'incredibly inefficient.' The US fleet today gets a real world average of
> something just over 24mpg, I believe.
(big snip)

I think the 'real world' on fuel mileage is when you take all the miles
driven in this country and divide it by all the gallons of gasoline used.
Counting warmups, idling, traffic jams, gridlock, cold climates, short
trips, and lots of older vehicles, SUV's and pickups I would be _very_
surprised to see an achieved average fuel mileage of 24 mpg for the entire
fleet.  Gut reaction only, no data.  I'm just thinking about transportation
as I view it and guessing...

I briefly tried to find statistics for this, but total miles driven would
likely be a WAG anyway.
-Bob Korves