I think that part of it, is the long distances in the western US. I have heard that larger vehicles and SUV's are more popular where the distances between cities is farther apart. Does anyone know of any statistics that may show the size of vehicles by state?
One thing I can say for sure, while the wife's little car has a slight mileage advantage, we do not like to take it on long trips. Driving seem to be more fatiguing, with the little car compared to my LandCruiser. I feel more tired when we take her car, than when we take the LC. Even when she does not do much of the driving, the wife says she prefers to take the LandCruiser, as she does not feel as tired when we finally arrive at our destination. Might this be a part of the big vehicle / little vehicle issue? Greg H. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hakan Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 05:18 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Diesel moped car...2 things! > > It is quite remarkable if you look at the development in fuel > economy between Europe and US. !960 I bought a used > Plymouth V8 that was prolonged to serve as 8 passenger > taxi and fast news paper distribution car in Sweden. It did > average around 20 mpg and at that time you still had a > lot of Swedish roads without speed limit. I could easily > drive around 120 mph on the major nationals. Because of > the changes with stiffer suspension and more direct drive, > it behaved more or less like a European car. 20 years > later, I could hold the same speeds with my Volvo on the > German Autobahn with 2/3 of the fuel consumption and > even better with my Mercedes and BMW company cars. > > In US the SUVs still make the same mpg as my 1956 > Plymouth V8 and at lower average speeds. Maybe US > auto makers are stuck in nostalgic euphoria. LOL > > Hakan > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
