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Comments     Threshold   By masher2 (blog) on 2/26/2007 8:49:22
PM , Rating: 1 > "I think I recall you stating that most of the
gas is being used by people commuting large distances in smaller
cars..."  That may be true, but its not quite what I'm saying.
My point is really very simple, and just a statement of
statistics. Vehicle mileage varies anywhere from around 10mpg
(Hummer) up to 50mpg (Prius). Thats a 5:1 ratio.  Miles driven
in the US, though varies from below 4K miles/year to over 100K
miles/year. That's a ratio of over 25:1. A far broader bell
curve, and therefore a much more significant variance.  The
conclusion? Total gasoline consumption in the US is driven much
less by people driving cars below average on efficiency, and
much more by people driving more miles than the national
average. It doesn't matter why they're driving, or what they're
driving in...that half of th