[permaculture] skeptical but curious - 376.59 mpg

paul wheaton paul at richsoil.com
Mon Feb 25 16:48:40 EST 2008


It sounds like that sort of contest has gone on since the 70's and
some vehicles have managed to get better than 1000mpg:

http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/448_0/alternative-energy/376-mpg



On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:24 PM, David Glober <david.glober at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "how does 376.59 miles per gallon  sound? Makes your Honda Civic hybrid look Hummeresque, doesn't it?
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>   "That number doesn't come from some manta ray-shaped, wind tunnel-vetted carbon fiber space car. No, it's from a chop-top, steel-frame 1959 Opel T-1 (think melting jelly bean, but uglier). And the record was set in 1973 in a contest sponsored by Shell Oil Co."
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>  http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/351903_needle20.html
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>  David Glober ~ San Francisco
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