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Hrmm, just thinking....

Exactly How much fuel does it waste? Sure, driveline losses can be calculated - but has anyone ever done a fuel useage study?

For example, how does it compare to fuel wasted to congestion? Here's that data for 2005 for selected cities - the numbers are in millions of gallons

City 2005
Akron, OH 2.3
Albany-Schenectady, NY 2.8
Albuquerque, NM 6.6
Allentown-Bethlehem, PA-NJ 4.7
Anchorage, AK 0.8
Atlanta, GA 96.1
Austin, TX 15.5
Bakersfield, CA 2.1
Baltimore, MD 40.8
Beaumont, TX 0.8
Birmingham, AL 8.2
Boston, MA-NH-RI 62.5
Boulder, CO 0.6
Bridgeport-Stamford, CT-NY 11.5
Brownsville, TX 0.4
Buffalo, NY 3.7
Cape Coral, FL 3.1
Charleston-North Charleston, SC 4.9
Charlotte, NC-SC 14.3
Chicago, IL-IN 141.6
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 17.4
Cleveland, OH 8.8
Colorado Springs, CO 4.4
Columbia, SC 2.4
Columbus, OH 15.5
Corpus Christi, TX 1.1
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 106.2
Dayton, OH 4.6
Denver-Aurora, CO 42.5
Detroit, MI 76.1
El Paso, TX-NM 5.7
Eugene, OR 1.1
Fresno, CA 4.2
Grand Rapids, MI 4.4
Hartford, CT 6.5
Honolulu, HI 6.3
Houston, TX 92.6
Indianapolis, IN 16.1
Jacksonville, FL 14.0
Kansas City, MO-KS 8.6
Laredo, TX 0.7
Las Vegas, NV 20.0
Little Rock, AR 2.3
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 383.7
Louisville, KY-IN 14.4
Memphis, TN-MS-AR 9.2
Miami, FL 105.2
Milwaukee, WI 10.8
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 41.8
Nashville-Davidson, TN 13.5
New Haven, CT 4.2
New Orleans, LA 6.9
New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT 242.0
Oklahoma City, OK 6.2
Omaha, NE-IA 5.3
Orlando, FL 26.0
Oxnard-Ventura, CA 8.4
Pensacola, FL-AL 2.7
Philadelphia, PA-NJ-DE-MD 70.9
Phoenix, AZ 58.9
Pittsburgh, PA 9.2
Portland, OR-WA 24.0
Providence, RI-MA 11.7
Raleigh-Durham, NC 11.7
Richmond, VA 6.4
Riverside-San Bernardino, CA 39.6
Rochester, NY 2.4
Sacramento, CA 29.2
Salem, OR 1.0
Salt Lake City, UT 9.3
San Antonio, TX 20.4
San Diego, CA 71.1
San Francisco-Oakland, CA 100.5
San Jose, CA 34.7
Sarasota-Bradenton, FL 5.3
Seattle, WA 54.7
Spokane, WA 0.9
Springfield, MA-CT 2.5
St. Louis, MO-IL 23.3
Tampa-St Petersburg, FL 35.3
Toledo, OH-MI 2.6
Tucson, AZ 10.5
Tulsa, OK 4.8
Virginia Beach, VA 17.1
Washington, DC-MD-VA 90.9
437-Area Average 6.6
85-Area Average 29.6
Very Large Area Average 120.1
Large Area Average 23.4
Medium Area Average 7.3
Small Area Average 1.8


EDIT: Sorry, that was confusing - I removed the 2004 data so it would be easier to read.