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Originally Posted by 4444
I think that article is for those with IQ's under 100 - mpg is what it is, if one can't analyze and compare it fairly with some intelligence, then that's ur bad.
It's a tool, a bad workman blames his tools - this article just supports that
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I think the article point is...mpg is an "inconvenient" tool
Most people think in-terms of the distance they need to travel...(i.e. km or miles), and not how many gallons or liter they need to use..
This means the distance should be in the denominator...(becoz people are more used to multiplication than division)
MPG uses the distance in the numerator and gas volume in the denominators....which makes calculating how much gas/$ you need to spend to in order to travel your annual 20,000 much more difficult.
Think of a supermarket that list all their groceries in lb/$ (instead of $/lb). It will make shopping and budgeting for prices so much more difficult. (Because we think of how many lbs of beef we want to buy first, instead of how much $$ worth of beef we want to buy)