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Old 04-17-2019, 07:40 AM   #5617 (permalink)
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Honda CBR250R FI Single - '11 Honda CBR250R
90 day: 105.14 mpg (US)

2001 Honda Insight stick - '01 Honda Insight manual
90 day: 60.68 mpg (US)

2009 Honda Fit auto - '09 Honda Fit Auto
90 day: 38.51 mpg (US)

PCX153 - '13 Honda PCX150
90 day: 104.48 mpg (US)

2015 Yamaha R3 - '15 Yamaha R3
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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
Whenever we spend money on anything, we're saying something, even if what we're saying is "build more of these things".
The consumer can play a big part in steering the market. But our inherited brain attributes of small tribes of hunter/ gatherers over the course of half a million years are still ingrained in us and were never programmed to care about the future of more than getting through the next winter or dry season or a few years at the very most. And our reward centers are now hijacked by modern super normal stimuli to hunt for the next big deal instead of for food. Yeast in a modern bottle of grape juice.