Re: theWatt Podcast 75

If a 200 pound person is almost 5% the combined weight of a 4,000 pound car and driver, doesn't that mean about 5% of the gasoline was used to push the person?

My 350 pound Vespa and I get a solid 78 mpg around town. 38% of that gasoline is consumed pushing me around. Given that I'm 3 feet tall, should I consider going on a diet?

Wasn't Amory Lovins the originator of nega-logic? Taking Lovin's logic to it limits, a bus would be 50 people on lightweight bicycles holding on to ropes being pulled by my Vespa.