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Originally Posted by bandit86
ever since I started to use it, it hasbeen a pain, now why cant you Americans simplify it a little, like gallons per sixty miles, or gallons per 100 miles?
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This is good information, but it's not new. Google The MPG Illusion. I think it's been posted here on EM too. Gallons per mile is far more effective of a measurement, but mpg is embedded in our brains. It will be hard to change, despite the current method's flaws.
Gallons per 1,000 (one thousand - not one hundred with a typo) miles would be my vote, for mathematical ease, and fewer decimals in terms of gpm.
At least the EPA lists both values.