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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.energy,talk.environment
- Subject: Definition of "Short Trip"
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:07:29 GMT
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- In-reply-to: gary@ke4zv.uucp's message of 17 Jan 93 17:29:55 GMT
-
- >> Some how the concept of SHORT TRIPS has been disregarded
- >> or possibly there is a definition of short trip that I am
- >> not familiar with.
- > Short trip: any trip that can be completed on one tank of
- > gas or less.
-
- =o= Well, that may be "a definition," but it's certainly not
- a useful one. Unless there's a definition of "useful" that
- I am not familiar with.
-
- =o= Given that most auto trips are on the order of 6 miles
- or less, perhaps one could use "6 miles or less" as a useful
- definition of "short trip."
- <_Jym_>
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