Reply #11: MPD? Seriously? Dumb [View All]

[SteelPenguin]

Since the ration of MPD to MPG varies sometimes on the day itself, or from station to station, you can't get any kind of relevant consistent number out of it. Plus inconsistencies between vehicles...

Just dumb imho.

The whole point of the article is that it makes it more obvious how much you're spending. If you need help with that then you're an idiot. Hell I have a Honda Civic that gets 35 MPG and I know that gas costs more now. I shudder to think how much that guy in the pickup is getting who is filling up next to me. If he says 10 MPG I know he's spending 3.5 times as much money as me. I don't need to add in some other fluctuating variable to complicate the situation with additional needless math.