Our government is hell bent on delivering us back to the Stone Age.
I go to work and we have toilets that need to be flushes three or four times. My new washing machine barely uses any water and when we wash something black it has to be hand rinsed to get the remaining detergent out.
I drove about 1100 miles last year through Germany, Switzerland, France and the Czech Republic in a Volvo V60. After about the first 8 hours of driving I started to think the gauge was broken as I still had more than 1/2 a tank left. That car got amazing mileage! Yeah, as a turbo diesel with a small engine it was a bit sluggish but when it came to fuel efficiency, it was mind blowing.
On a side note, we bought a 2016 Audi S5 last year and it has been a great car. We drive a lot and at 20k there have been zero issues. Interestingly it’s electronically limited to 155 top speed. Who pulled that number out of their a**? Not that I plan on getting it up there but is 155 really much safer than 160 or 165?
Sigh.
Cheers.
On the 155 thing, I suspect that is a combination of available tire ratings and operating under U.S. tort law.
155 mph = 250kph , German/European automakers chose that to avoid top speed wars ... everything but the baddest hotrods are so limited there...