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Originally Posted by PaleMelanesian
Hey James, not all the world has mountains. We get it that you do. Just don't try to project that on everyone.
25% of the world is mountainous:
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OK. Now subtract some of the flat parts, where people don't do a lot of driving, for instance the Australian Outback, the Amazon basin, the Canadian & Alaskan Arctic, the Siberian steppe... What percent of the rest is mountains, or is in close enough proximity to mountains that a car owner would regularly drive there? At least a third, maybe half, of the continental US, for starters.
But in any case, me living in mountains and basjoos in the flatlands isn't really the issue. It just makes a direct comparison of our mpgs invalid, because we're not driving in the same conditions.