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In article <1992Mar30.234548.8807@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>In article <17190@oasys.dt.navy.mil> dlee@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Lee) writes:
>>
>>Any speed higher than 55 mph MUST consume more gas!!! How much more might
>>be questionable; but it has to be more unless someone has developed a
>>machine that reverses the laws of physics.. You never get something for
>>nothing in nature...
>
>Your statement is trivially false-- consider a car with an overdrive
>gear which doesn't get activated until 60MPH.
>

Consider as well the fact that you ARE going faster--granted, you are pumping
out a little more carbon monoxide, but you are also going a little faster,
thereby spreading the pollution evenly, so the argument that 60 mph pollutes
more than 55 mph is therefore not conclusive, and possibly not valid.  Those
are the laws of physics properly applied...



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