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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (327557)	2/27/2007 4:33:02 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575772

"No, he's right. The problem in the comparison is that the 15,000 miles stays constant. " What? "Therefore, you can drop the MPG of the average car by 12% and that of the Prius by 16% and end up with a larger absolute difference, even though the Prius suffered more percentage-wise." Uh,, yeah. That is the point. It isn't some liberal conspiracy to make America look bad. Which is a sort of a loony tunes assertion. It is just basic math involving a reciprocal.