Using the fan, heater - Toyota Yaris Forums

colb · 03-11-2009, 06:59 AM

I suppose a Yaris forum, if anywhere, would be the place where you'd expect to find people who can't get it through their heads that saving energy doesn't matter if you're not saving enough to notice.

Getting a tenth of a percent better gas mileage (like driving without DRLs during the day, or the fan on full blast, or using windshield wipers in the rain) just doesn't matter. It will not affect your wallet. It will not affect CO2 emissions. Does it really count as saving energy if there's no possible way you can ever notice it? Nope, not in the real world. If everybody saved a tenth of a percent of gas mileage, would it reduce our dependence on foreign oil? Nope.

This is often called "good engineering judgment" or alternatively "common sense."

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03-11-2009, 06:59 AM	#14
colb Drives: yaris Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: or Posts: 14	I suppose a Yaris forum, if anywhere, would be the place where you'd expect to find people who can't get it through their heads that saving energy doesn't matter if you're not saving enough to notice. Getting a tenth of a percent better gas mileage (like driving without DRLs during the day, or the fan on full blast, or using windshield wipers in the rain) just doesn't matter. It will not affect your wallet. It will not affect CO2 emissions. Does it really count as saving energy if there's no possible way you can ever notice it? Nope, not in the real world. If everybody saved a tenth of a percent of gas mileage, would it reduce our dependence on foreign oil? Nope. This is often called "good engineering judgment" or alternatively "common sense."