veggie oil?? (was RE: Audi 5000 Diesel conversion)

[mike]

I do about 20k per year but I think the UK average is
about 10k. I live maybe 6 miles from work but lots of
people commute into big cities
the commuter belt
around London expands every year and, I think, now
stands at about 70 miles. 

Having said that, a combination of high petrol duty,
lack of parking spaces and over-crowded roads forces a
lot of people onto the trains (which are also
over-crowded and expensive)

When I have to drive into London
.about 60 miles away,
it generally takes two hours but, depending on traffic
often takes closer to three.

I do France & Germany a couple of times a year and
road travel over there is much easier even in the big
cities, similarly the rail systems are much better
too.

Maybe it’s a space thing, the UK has 60m people, about
the same as France or  Germany but they have maybe
twice the land.

England is the same size as NY state and has maybe 50
million people, how many live in NY state?

Mike
--- Kent McLean <kentmclean at mindspring.com> wrote:

> mike wrote:
>  > Don’t forget, in the UK we pay very high fuel
> duty,
>  > whilst you yanks are screaming about $3/gall we
> pay
>  > £1/litre (which assuming 5l = gall, £1 = $1.70
> and the
>  > US gall = UK gall) works out at $8.50/gall
> 
> But how many miles per year do you drive?
> 
> Many Americans have long commutes to work. I once
> commuted
> 115 miles -- one way -- to work. Every day. That was
> about
> 58K miles *per year*. That is unusual, but I hear
> some people
> in California do more than that, to find affordable
> housing.
> 
> For Europeans, 100 miles is far.
> For Americans, 100 MPH is fast.
> 
> To give a comparison of size, England is roughly the
> same
> area as the state of New York (50,352 vs. 48,708 sq
> miles).
> 


	
	
		
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