overheard in providence

I brought this up once before, but with all the recent griping over the Cash for Clunkers Program and its lack luster milage requirements, it’s worth reflecting on how confusing miles per gallon ratings are from the perspective of trying to conserve gasoline. What we should be talking about is gallons per mile, (or [...]

About a year after my French friend Luc arrived in the states, he told me that he had basically adjusted to nonmetric units, with one exception, miles per gallon. In Europe not only do they measure fuel in liters and distance in kilometers, but they also measure fuel efficiency in liters per kilometer (not kilometers [...]