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Originally Posted by cbibbs
14.28 MPG of gasoline? The article isn't talking about gasoline consumption, it is talking about water consumption. So all three of your conversions should be "of water". The difficulty here is that in neither case is the water directly consumed by the vehicle, but in the process of getting its fuel, so it is hard to see the impact.
It is important that we really explore the impact of switching to plug-in hybrids before doing it. Unexplored solutions rarely solve our problems.
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Good point! I misread the Science Digest article. Still, I suspect it will be used for 'not good things.' Worse, the economic impact of gasoline vs. water usage is an order of magnitude different problem.
Bob Wilson