{"id":672,"date":"2007-02-21T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2007-02-21T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T13:38:00","slug":"your-mileage-may-vary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Your mileage may vary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steakums.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">steakums<\/a> sent me this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/health\/content\/shared-blogs\/ajc\/parenting\/entries\/2007\/02\/21\/jumping_to_a_mi.html\">link<\/a>, in our ongoing discussions about whether to minivan or not to minivan.<\/p>\n<p>One commenter on this article said : <i>I don\u2019t know why everyone is opposed to SUV\u2019s. I personally love mine, and it gets great gas mileage, contrary to the popular belief. I fill it up once a week, ($30-35) and I can go all week on one tank of gas. (I live very close to work).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Leaving aside the ignorance on how one measures &#8220;gas mileage&#8221;, this comment dredged up a pet peeve I have about discussing gas mileage. It bothers me to an extent, and probably irrationally so, when I ask someone how their gas mileage is on their vehicle, and they say &#8220;Great! It&#8217;s about 20MPG!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ll allow that 20MPG could be <i>relatively<\/i> &#8220;great&#8221; for a specific type of vehicle, say a Semi or a garbage barge, I can&#8217;t allow that it is <i>empirically<\/i> &#8220;great&#8221; for anything.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m offering an empirical rating chart for gas mileage conversations. You and yours may choose to adopt it, you may not. I offer it as a suggestion, and letting everyone know what I mean when I say &#8220;great&#8221;.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nMPG                  RATING\r\n0-20MPG              embarrassing\r\n20-30MPG             poor\r\n30-40MPG             acceptable\r\n40-50MPG             good\r\n50MPG-100MPG         great\r\n100MPG+              awesome\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>These will have to be adjusted periodically for technological improvements.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, one can still use phrases with relative qualifications, such as &#8220;My minivan gets 35MPG, which is great for a minivan.&#8221; I&#8217;ve got no beef with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>steakums sent me this link, in our ongoing discussions about whether to minivan or not to minivan. One commenter on this article said : I don\u2019t know why everyone is opposed to SUV\u2019s. I personally love mine, and it gets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=672\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}