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Old 02-05-08 | 05:59 PM
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aikigreg
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Originally Posted by Doug5150
It's cute but pointless, as such a comparison still fails on economics. The car eats a lot cheaper than you do.

A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline costs around $3 (midwest US) right now, and contains about 31,000 calories.

Tell me any kind of food you can buy, that $3 worth would contain 31,000 calories.
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Does not equate. I can go 130 miles on about 5000 calories. So, that's roughly 750 miles per 31000 calories I can ingest. Show me a car that can go 750 miles per gallon?
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