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Heard this in passing on radio. If there are 200 million vehicles on the road, this translate to 15000 miles a year. Is this about right? The 200 million vehicles includes all the trucks, freight, cargo etc.
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15,000 seems low to me. the trucks probably raise the average for private car drivers which average 12-15,000 according to most data.
For our 3 cars, the miles driven was 6,000, 4,000 and 3,000, so total for my wife and I was 13,000 yet I take the bus to work and she works within walking distance.
I have 2 late model cars that are daily drivers (2010 + 2013).....one turned 50K miles Monday and the other turned 40K. We went 90K miles in those two cars in essentially 7 years of time without ever going on a long car trip (like out of the state).
Heard this in passing on radio. If there are 200 million vehicles on the road, this translate to 15000 miles a year. Is this about right? The 200 million vehicles includes all the trucks, freight, cargo etc.
No. I assume that the "vehicles on the road" total is based on the total number of vehicles currently registered in the US. Many people have more registered vehicles in the family than licensed drivers which throws the total off.
Would it have been better for the environment to do those miles by horse and buggy?
Could you imagine a landfill full of old horse shoes, used wooden wagon wheels and tons of manure roadside all over America? How many trees would be taken down to build the buggies, the wagon wheels? How much food would those horses consume? Wait, what about the amount of suffering the horses would experience?
We also grew and cut off 200,000,000,000,000 inches of hair. Virtually all wasted, despite a tensile strength stronger than steel wire.
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