Understanding the average gas mileage
June 11th, 2008
Selling cars is obviously big business. How else do you explain the plethora of advertisements which bombard you every time you switch on the TV or are looking through magazines? Of course, all this publicity is necessary to educate the customer about the various properties of the vehicles advertised but, I do wish these companies would be a bit more circumspect when they brag about their mileage ratings. After careful studies I have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as the perfect mileage rating. If one vehicle is advertised as giving 28miles per gallon and the other as 29 miles per gallon, chances are that it is somewhere around 28-29 miles per gallon. This is the Average Gas Mileage. So, next time you buy a car based solely on its mileage ratings, remember that the mileage given is only the average mileage.
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