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These debates come up occasionally, and I find they're ultimately counter-productive.
See: glass houses, throwing of rocks, etc.
The use of the "sweet spot" terminolgy in the first post was a mistake, yes. (The term has a pretty specific meaning to the people who use this site regularly, and that wasn't it.) But I'm glad that icarus is getting a kick out of the improved mileage of a more efficient car, even if his MPG performance suffers by comparison to similar cars owned by more hard-core efficiency enthusiasts.
Maybe I'm too much of an optimist, but I tend to think that someone who gets a kick out of early results like icarus will probably try harder in the future when he judges that he has more time to spare/devote to his game.
Maybe he won't on a the multiple-hour journeys, but on the cross-town or shorter haul trips where an extra 5 minutes travel time isn't a big deal.
But we're not going to hear about it if he feels he's being jumped on and disappears.
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