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dcb · 05-14-2010, 07:40 AM

The other "gamey" aspect of this is that the fuel returns seem to taper off as gallons used approaches zero.

If you were to assume we had, say, rations of fuel (it's happened before), where you only get 500 gallons a year and were to look at how many miles you could travel on that allotment with different cars it puts a different spin on things.

@ 500 gallons/year

a .1gpm car could go 5000 miles
a .05gpm car could go 10000 miles
a .025gpm car could go 20000 miles

so in each case we decreased consumption by 50% and doubled the range.

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