Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: auto subsidies, Chevy Volt, Dan Lungren, energy efficiency, Ford, GM, Mike Kelley, mpg, peak oil, The Excellence in Energy Efficiency Act
This sets the bar pretty high, but it’s only February. I bet the other congressmen can put their heads together and come up with something even stupider than this.
GOP lawmaker offers $1 billion prize to first 100 mpg gasoline car – The Hill's Floor Action.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: efficiency, horsepower, Knittel, mpg, vehicle weight
From a paper by Christopher Knittel in American Economic Review (pdf).
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/cars-on-steroids-0104.html
Since 1980, horsepower has more than doubled, and average weight has gone way up, so mpg gains have been largely canceled.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, cycling, efficiency, energy, kilocalories, mpg, transportation
Murphy gives about the same figures I came up with for Cyclist’s Manifesto. —-> 1000 mpg for cycling.