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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Fuel use per passenger

GOOD magazine has a nice chart answering a questions I've wondered before: what uses more fuel per person, cars or airplanes? (The main chart assumes that a car is only carrying the driver.)
Picked up from FlowingData.
Posted by Jessica at 8:30 AM

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