What's driving the average human?
 

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7155649792/h5057AB01/

Before you want one, think of the cost of maintenance and the poor yearly total distance ;)

Humm... At a rough guess, I might walk 2000 miles per year (can we include skiing, biking, &c?), but consume maybe 5 gallons of beer per year, so 400 mpg? Definitely hypermiling, anyway :-)

I've also noticed that I get much better mileage from Guiness or other good beers than from mass-market stuff.

An average human that does moderate activity burns 2500 calories per day which is 912,500 calories per year.

22 gallons of beer at 130 calories per serving is 30,507 calories... That just isn't enough...

One keg serves 124 sixteen ounce servings each serving is 173.3 calories. So we need 5265.5 pints rounded up which is 42.5 kegs rounding up.

Okay people so we need to drink 14 beers per day to stay alive. :D

Although... that means we would only get like 1.36 MPG :(

Alcohol isn't a hydrocarbon

Hydrocarbons do not contain oxygen

Is alcohol a hydrocarbon? Justify your answer? | ChaCha
Is alcohol a hydrocarbon
Explain why ethanol is not a hydrocarbon? - Yahoo! Answers

Alcohol contain small hydrocarbon chains but are not themselves hydrocarbons.
https://sites.google.com/site/chemis...es-of-alcohols

Remember, though, that beer (especially Budweiser :-)) is mostly water. Figure about 5% alcohol as an average, and that bumps it up to about 27 mpg of ethanol.

pretty good.

Their gonads and not very damned much more.

Just to put the first post in perspective and to remind us that not all gallons are equal:

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8288899840/h875B6D6C/

That said, I do drink quite some alcohol free and very light beer. In all fairness the motivation to do so never came from a wish to relieve myself in any way.

I opened this thread expecting a serious discussion about the role of instincts in human life and the ruse of "reason" or "intelligence," ready to post away about the two forces at work (they are the same as in all life: preservation of the self, and promulgation of the species). Alas....

I was serious. As usual, nobody wanted to go there.

I like the little 'sparkles' on 'Quote of the week'.

http://i.imgur.com/twD4Z6P.gif