Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's 20 mpg. You must be thinking of SUVs. :-) >
I like round numbers. I have the 2002 Edition of the Annual Energy Review printed out with lots of post-it notes. Under "AUTOS, TRUCKS" on p. 61 it shows "Passenger Cars, Fuel Rate (miles per gallon)" for the year 2001. That's the average. It was 22.1 mpg. 20 is close enough. I should print out a more recent edition. Let's see what the latest one says . . . Okay, by 2008 we were up to a mighty 22.6 mpg. Such progress! You see why I do not bother to print out a more recent one. DOE/EIA-0384(2010) | October 2011 www.eia.gov/aer Annual Energy Review 2010 - Jed
