YOU dig 'em out if you disagree with the best facts available so far. As I said elsewhere, personal anecdotes may be interesting but they are useless for arriving at general conclusions.
DAS
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You wanted facts. You got them. Either you post more up to date facts or stick with your fairy stories. One day you might get good at it.
Huw
Same here. Although I do not dislike driving, like you about two hours is as much as I would like to limit myself per day. Also a different car is nice now and again. I'm lucky in that respect. I have just returned from an 85 mile journey with the Panda and broke 90mpg overall. I wasn't even trying for the first half where I noticed the average tantalisingly close to 70 mpg, so on the return journey I went all out for economy and actually averaged 90mpg and rising as I arrived home.
Huw
A question people have been asking for a LONG time.... :-/
Amtrak is a running late-night talk show monologue joke.
Geesh. Loosen your jockstrap, Floyd. Its cutting circulation to your brain.
Actually, I'd EXPECT small-town heartlanders of the midwest and southwest to have the among the lowest mileage figures (and the most relaxed lifestyles). The high mileage would be suburbanites that commute to cities.
Again, I dont' have a dog in the fight, its just that the numbers quoted feel awfully wrong, given that every city I travel to has traffic reports in the morning and evening that show a LOT of cars travelling a lot of miles to and from the 'burbs.
All the figures are available broken down per region and every which way you like. Just follow the links I provided. Either get yourself a dog or leave the ring before you get bitten deep on your ass ;-)
Huw
Well that's right. We aren't the ones wasting hours a day on a commute.
US official figures show that you are not representative of the average but are indeed included in it.
Huw
Well, you're certainly right that there's a lot of ass-biting going on, but it aint the dogs that are doing the biting.
Well I might be if I was in the US. What part of England did you lived in Boyo ? :-)
Well I am waiting for evidence that shows that official US figures are wrong and that you and Clare know best. I suspect it will be a long wait, like until the first snowy day in July.
Huw
"Richard Sexton" wrote >
A part of the UK that can communicate using correct English. ;-)
Huw
DAS
Reminds me of an anecdote (not OT since so many posts here are anecdotes...) about my first paid job, a holiday job just after school.
It was in the suburbs of Cardiff (in Wales for those not in the know) and my digs were somewhere there, too. The first letter my (non-British) parents sent me from the Continent was addressed to me at Cardiff, England... and I got a long lecture from my landlady and her husband...
DAS
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If you'd go back and READ, I never claimed that I know best (and I sure as hell don't speak for Clare). I just said it doesn't "feel" like the right number. I'm perfectly well aware that intuition isn't a mathematical basis for anything, so stop trying to pick a fight where there isn't one. Whether the real national average per driver is 12 miles a year or 120,000 miles a year doesn't change my life one iota either way.
It is very gracious of you to admit your feeling was wrong.
Huw
Oh, SOUTH Wales.
Uh yeah. About that. I'm surprised you got off that easy :-)
Given that most of us posting in this crossposted nightmare from the AADT NG actually drive the Dodge trucks in the name of the NG, it would also be safe to assume that we don't live in urban centers where a truck would be less needed.
As for me, I live in a small town, and work on heavy mechanical pieces, mostly dirty ones at that. On top of that, I tow a car trailer. Travel to any major city is an hour at least, over two in most cases. I drive five hours to my other home, and at times carry furniture.
A small car simply wouldn't do what I need it to do.
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