I recognize you are making a point and not really asking the question. However, the numbers hang together approximately for the US gallon, and the nutritional (Big-C) Calorie or kilocalorie (once you get over Calorie or calorie, the five flavors only differ by about ±1%).
For an organization being "transparent," I would like to make the point that they ignore a couple of facts above the human: *Humans exhale about 1 kg (2.2 lb) of CO2 per day. *The 0.23 lb of "human waste" decays to a mixture of solids, CO2, and methane, the methane having 27X the greenhouse gas potential of an equal weight of CO2. They are perhaps a little opaque in ignoring that (as well as the human can't go 97 km/h to save his life) --- On Tue, 3/3/09, Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:43349] Burning Fuel > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Cc: "USMA Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 5:23 PM > Dear GOOD people, > > I want to comment on you page at > http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/013/transparency013burningfuel.html > > You may not be aware but your choice of measures makes it > difficult for an international reader to comprehend what you > are on about and therefore makes it almost impossible to > encourage anyone to do anything about the worldwide problem > you are attempting to address. > > As examples: > > When you write gallon, which gallon do you mean? > If it is a gallon (USA) does this mean that you think peak > oil and peak energy are USA-only problems and are irrelevant > to the rest of the world. > > When you use the word calorie, which calorie do you mean? > I know of about 30 different calories including the > original one used for human food in the USA (the amount of > heat needed to heat 4 pounds of water by 1 degree > Fahrenheit, Dr Lulu Hunt-Peters 1919) > > When you use the word pounds, are you referring to pounds > of mass or pounds of force? > > As you know all of the research needed to provide the > figures you quote were all done in metric units and then > dumbed down for the citizens of the USA. This dumbing down, > in my opinions, belittles the people of the USA > unnecessarily by treating them as if they are all simple > minded children. > > Knowing that your overall goal is to: > > What is GOOD? > > GOOD is the integrated media platform for people who want > to live well and do good. We are a company and community for > the people, businesses, and NGOs moving the world forward. > GOOD's mission is to provide content, experiences, and > utilities to serve this community. > (http://www.good.is/about/company.php ) > > Might I respectfully suggest that, to keep moving toward > the goals of your website that you might also consider > moving toward the use of the metric system. > > These references might help: > http://www.metricationmatters.com/metric_conversion.html > http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/AWordAboutGlobalWarming.pdf > > Cheers, > > Pat Naughtin > > PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, > Geelong, Australia > Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 > > Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat > Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of > companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, > quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands > each year when buying, processing, or selling for their > businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many > different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, > industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, > Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the > Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric > associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See > http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication > information, contact Pat at > [email protected] or to get the free > 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: > http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
