• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Saw this on Facebook and the comments were teaming with boomers and morons insisting it was because cars are now more aerodynamic.

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      7 months ago

      That will have a non-zero effect, but it’s far from the whole story.

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      7 months ago

      Because cars in the 90’s weren’t aerodynamic? There’s been improvements, sure, but most cars then still had pretty good coefficients of drag.

      But sure, blame anything except climate change.