If you’re running an airline, yes that’s the relevant metric. If you’re comparing an urban elite with a poor bloke with his truck, no. Mr. Loves-his-truck drives, at the insane most, 20 000 miles a year. That’s a round…
They’re also flown very far away.
Big deal; it’s a bus with wings. My seven seat SUV gets 210 passenger mpg. But if I vacation with my SUV, I’ll go 600 mi. away as an absolute maximum or about a days worth of driving. That’s 7.5 gal per person for my…
If you’re running an airline, yes that’s the relevant metric. If you’re comparing an urban elite with a poor bloke with his truck, no. Mr. Loves-his-truck drives, at the insane most, 20 000 miles a year. That’s a round…
They’re also flown very far away.
Big deal; it’s a bus with wings. My seven seat SUV gets 210 passenger mpg. But if I vacation with my SUV, I’ll go 600 mi. away as an absolute maximum or about a days worth of driving. That’s 7.5 gal per person for my…