In fairness - for whatever reasons - pollution has always been classified as g/km (even though I note the some, including posters to the address you include, talk about it being per mile) since it was introduced in the UK. It's also used for car tax purposes. Economy is usually spoken about as mpg and many people feel the immediate 'pinch' of that compared to the yearly tax disk. That's not from personal opinion but 'how things are'. Don't some in the US talk about grammes per mile or something? I find that as odd as us (in the UK) changing to miles per litre (to fit with physical usage at the pumps + car dials). It seems that usually the units don't get purposely mixed hence us using mpg even though you can't fill up at a petrol station in gallons (well, you can, but that's not how it comes up on the readout underneath the all important and nasty figure above it ticking up. And up. And (etc))
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:46195] BBC article Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:47:20 +0000 Nice article on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman/2009/11/why_cars_are_greener_than_buses.html All metric. Even the readers' posts are substantially (if not totally) metric, which is very encouraging especially when it is considered that this is a transportation article and the UK's transportation (road and rail signage) system is primarily imperial. As for whether you agree with the article or not, it can be seen that the subject is highly complex with ne easy solutions. _________________________________________________________________ Got more than one Hotmail account? Save time by linking them together http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/186394591/direct/01/
