[extropy-chat] Public Transportation

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Mike Lorrey wrote:

> The average daily commute as I recall is somewhere around 20-25 miles.
> 
> However the point is that the Geo was a lighter vehicle with lower
> safety standards and lower passenger capacity than todays economy cars.
> Today's 35 mpg engine is hauling more car and more people at that
> milage than the Geo at 50 mpg, so when you calculate in the end the
> miles per gallon per person,

I'm not seeing more people per car in commutes today,
compared with a few years ago.  Quite the contrary...

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