[Political Junkie Too]

The panel urged that fuel use be displayed as fuel consumed - perhaps as volume of fuel used per 100 miles - alongside the traditional miles-per-gallon measure. This standard is used already in Europe, with fuel use being given in terms of litres used per 100 kilometres travelled.

Oh, yeah...

This will go over well with people who can't even make change correctly at McDonalds.

-PJ

[antiRepublicrat]

This will go over well with people who can't even make change correctly at McDonalds.

I think that's the point. Relative mpg measurements are obviously too difficult for many to understand correctly. Changing it makes it so even that crowd can judge relative fuel consumption accurately.