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Realistically speaking, they probably do. Do you know how much fuel they use and miles they drive per year?
by turkeyboi 9mo ago
Realistically speaking, they probably do. Do you know how much fuel they use and miles they drive per year?
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- vel0city 9mo agoAverage class 8 truck (>33,000lbs) burns under 11,000GGEa year, ratio is 1GGE=1.13gal of diesel. So somewhere under 12,500gal of diesel on average, but we'll use that to lean even more in the truck's favor. https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10308 https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10308 Are you suggesting the average car burns less than 1 gallon of gas a year? A 20mpg car driving 12,500mi (the average ICE in the US) would use 625gal of gas. So more like 20x, maybe 40x if the per gallon tax of diesel is double. Pretty dang far off from 20,000x. And they're doing way more miles while being massively heavier, meaning incredibly more harm on the road than whatever EV you're thinking.
- dredmorbius 9mo agoGGE: Gasoline gallon equivalent <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent> (Most tractor-trailor rigs burn diesel rather than petrol.)