How Do It Do That?

We bought a new car today, which is quite an event in our household when you consider the average age of all our other cars is 19 years old.  This new car is bringing the average age down to fifteen years old.  More importantly we bought a car that get’s 47 miles to the gallon and can carry 4 tall people and a little bit of stuff.

I am anti-stuff and related to a couple of really tall people so it is just perfect.

But you know the part I like the best is the 47 miles per gallon.  Today we drove it out to Apex and when we got in the car it told me that we could go 330 miles on the amount of gas we had.  We drove about 50 miles and when we got home the car told me we could go 358 miles on the amount of gas we had.  I swear to the good lord above we did not stop and put a drop of gas in it.  Apparently driving it charged it up and not only got us there and back on nothing, but gave us some more energy.

Will wonders never cease?  I think about my paternal grandfather who kept a number of spiral bound notebooks as logs to track how much life he got out of everything he owned that had a battery.   When I was a teenager I would peruse these logs on his desk while I used the phone.  “Tractor log, Sunday 8/15/76- 14 minutes.  Monday 8/16/76 – 1 hour 23 minutes…  Flash Light log, Wednesday 8/12/76 3 minutes…” What in the world, I would think.

This car would really throw my grandfather off; then again it is already acting as it’s own log.  I could see him now, driving around even if he did not need to just so he could make more energy.

I think that there are some foods that are like this for our bodies.  Take celery.  Apparently it is so low in calories and takes so many calories to digest it that, by eating it you are losing weight.

I would love it if all the engineers who have figured out how to make car power from pressing on the brake (Don’t ask me, it is too complicated to explain.) would turn their attention to creating more foods that use up more calories by being eaten than are in them to begin with.

I’m keeping my own log to see if I can get more than 47 miles to the gallon.  I figure if I weigh a little less it will be easier for the car to carry me around, but given this whole newfangled world I could be wrong.  I don’t know how it does it, but I’m glad it does.