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Last year, Volkswagen announced that by next year they'll be producing this carbon fiber plugin hybrid getting 230 miles a gallon.
Instead of just seeing the travel grow, we can use innovative pricing, charging for road infrastructure by the mile, not by the gallon.
Let's say they do 30 miles per gallon.
CA: But in a gallon of gasoline, you have, effectively, thousands of years of sun power compressed into a small space, so it's hard to make the numbers work right now on solar, and to remotely compete with, for example, natural gas, fracked natural gas.
In America, before the motor vehicle, transportation depended entirely on the urban horse, which dropped, without restraint, 25 to 50 pounds of manure on the streets every day together with a gallon of urine.
If you were to take that very expensive CO2 and convert it to a liquid fuel, that comes out to 50 dollars a gallon.
Compared to the seawater desalination plant that was built in Santa Barbara 25 years ago, this treatment plant will use about half the energy to produce a gallon of water.
When you buy a car, it tells you how many miles per gallon to expect.
It has to do with a gallon of milk, with college tuition.
That assumes a carbon tax starting at 40 dollars per ton, which translates into roughly an extra 36 cents per gallon of gas.
Here you see them lifting a gallon filled with water.
More miles per gallon, more light per watt, more words per minute.
For example, this Opel two-seater does 155 miles an hour at 94 miles a gallon.
This muscle car from Toyota: 408 horsepower in an ultra-light that does zero to 60 in well under four seconds, and still gets 32 miles a gallon.
Well, saving that fuel, 69 percent of the fuel in light vehicles costs about 57 cents per saved gallon.
But it's even a better deal for heavy trucks, where you save a similar amount at 25 cents a gallon, with better aerodynamics and tires and engines, and so on, and taking out weight so you can put it into payload.
And yet we may not realize that in a standard sedan, of all the fuel energy you feed into the car, seven-eighths never gets to the wheels; it's lost first in the engine, idling at zero miles a gallon, the power train and accessories.
Now even if we get to 40 miles per gallon by 2020, which is our desire.
Imagine only 40 miles per gallon cars would be on the road.
That is an 80 cent gallon.
An 80 cent gallon means, if the entire Pacific would convert to crude oil, and we'd let any oil company bring it out and refine it, they still can't compete with two cents a mile.
Each bag contained two 20-ounce diet Snapples, a gallon of barbecue sauce, a bag of kettle potato chips, a box of superhero-shaped vegetable-enriched macaroni noodles, a box of belVita breakfast bars, a can of refried beans, a can of sweet peas, a miniature can of corn, I can't forget about those Ding Dongs and french fried green onions, you know, the kind that go on top of a green bean casserole.
And if we are smart about connecting the dots that are right in front of our noses, we can do far more than give a family a box of superhero-shaped vegetable-enriched macaroni noodles and a gallon of barbecue sauce to feed themselves.
They are saying, "This is 35 miles per gallon.
I'm going to do the environmentally right thing, I'm going to buy the Prius, 50 miles per gallon."
Another person walks into the lot, and they're about to buy a Hummer, nine miles per gallon, fully loaded, luxury.
I'm going to take off some of that weight, and I'm going to buy a Hummer that's 11 miles per gallon."
Because we don't care about miles per gallon, we care about gallons per mile.
Miles per gallon is the way we present things.
That's before we got up to the four bucks a gallon.
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