After high school I joined the Marines.
Great! Thank you for your service. I also was in the Corps. In fact last week, at the Marines' Ball here in Estonia, I was once again the oldest and passed the cake to the youngest.
they can achieve the same results by ... driving 60 rather then 70mph...
Not always true (not nit-pickin' but don't swallow hook, line, and sinker, everything. On the other hand, maybe your resistance to swallowing hook, line, and sinker has made you skeptical of Bob??) Unfortunately you've been snookered with the mean speed and economy lie. In the early '70s the government forced the major car manufacturers to DE-TUNE the engines on their cars to make them run more efficiently AT A LOWER SPEED (which is actually LESS efficient when TIME is factored in - TIME
is MONEY!!). In actuality, they
reduced performance. Performance is the amount of work accomplished (think HP) for a given input of fuel (think gasoline). For example, anyone who ever worked on cars, knows that a car with the model year '73 was a sow compared to the SAME model from '72. Same thing again in '75 when they went to unleaded fuels. All of us older folks distinctly remember the pre-ignition "knocking" of the early unleaded cars DUE TO DE-TUNED ENGINES!!
So. A car can be MADE to perform
better at a
higher speed and can get
better performance (
and fuel economy) at that speed. My 2011 VW Caravelle gets SUBSTANTIALLY better economy at 100 than it does at 70.*
like I said before this is just my opinion. Everyone has the right to have one.
Yes. True. But NO ONE has a right to their own "facts".
*kph
