"Want to make a killer difference in our gas consumption, engineer a way to make the current 500 million cars already on the roads today get 3 more mpg, because I figure 1/3rd of the cars on the road are in the sub 20mpg range."
Lower the highway speed limit to 55 mph and city/town speed limits to 35 mph. Eight solar panels on your roof can provide 30 miles daily range in an electric car with no emissions at all. No engineering needed, and it can be done tomorrow.
-- Perhaps what we need to get on with it is a bit of widely-shared sacrifice.
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Always fun to see an AC commenting "for the record."
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Best off-topic post in the thread so far, thanks! And may I point out that many of the hypersensitive alienated Normals are armed?
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"Want to make a killer difference in our gas consumption, engineer a way to make the current 500 million cars already on the roads today get 3 more mpg, because I figure 1/3rd of the cars on the road are in the sub 20mpg range."
Lower the highway speed limit to 55 mph and city/town speed limits to 35 mph. Eight solar panels on your roof can provide 30 miles daily range in an electric car with no emissions at all. No engineering needed, and it can be done tomorrow.
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Perhaps what we need to get on with it is a bit of widely-shared sacrifice.