Thatâs 5.6 liters / 100 km, which is genuinely pretty good.
Smart â though of course smaller â has under 5 litres. Without electrical help, which will come on top of the Ford. VW Lupo managed 3.5, was very popular with Pizza delivery services.
So on the hand hand, it IS pretty good because people want smaller cars better mileage.
OTOH, itâll probably just mean that the gains will get eaten up by the rebound effect until lawmakers say âTough luck, you arenât allowed more than that many grams of COâ per km.â
Or, to put it in terms that red-blooded Americans are familiar with, approximately 1 football field (100 yards) per teaspoon.
Why donât we do the sensible thing and express volume / length as an area? This is 0.56 mm2 or, if you prefer to express it in terms of font sizes, 4.5 square points.
The good news for people with short commutes is that there are a ton of older Nissan Leafs available for under $8k. (Unfortunately those are the ones with worn out batteries that may only get you 30 miles of range or so, but thatâs still enough for a lot of people)
Or about half a football field per barn-megaparsec
This asshole
Just codifying a work-from-home mandate for everyone who can and chooses to would make a huge impact. Not just in terms of the reduction in cars on the street but the very nature of traffic in most big cities would fundamentally change. And it would be an immediate impact.
You can tell that trolling Pete is one of her favorite parts of her job
To be honest I get less enjoyment watching these interactions than many others on this forum seem to. It often feels to me like thereâs too much of a wink-wink âweâre both just doing our jobs for the sake of appearancesâ kinda thing, like the Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog characters on the Loony Tunes cartoons who are just clocking in for a dayâs work:
Psaki has acknowledged that thereâs a âperformative aspectâ to these on-camera exchanges, which Iâm not really a big fan of.
It literally doesnât matter WHAT they do, they will frame it as âthe radical leftâ acting bad.
Yep, same here.
It is nice in a way to see a smart woman up there sparring with corporate-media hacks, but i have little doubt sheâs got her sights firmly set on the future, when like her predecessors, sheâll leverage the exposure for a much more lucrative gig sometime soon.
Feel what youâre going to feel and all that, but what did you imagine the job of the WH press Secretary to be? They have press conferences in front of cameras for a reason.
True, and she basically does her job well, but every Secretary has their own style with some being more âperformativeâ (her word, not mine) than others. There are 48 other reporters in the room and I feel like sheâs intentionally calling on that idiot Doocy so frequently in order to create these little viral clips, which works both to the White Houseâs advantage (giving her an effective foil) and also to Doocyâs, as it raises his profile.
