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Re: While these vehicles may all have the code installed

@AC - Shipping

Maersk large ships (they have 8) take 15,200 containers

Engines produce well over 115k bhp (including heat recovery etc)

burning 16 tons/hour

travelling at 29.3mph

For crude: 1 ton is 307.86 gallons

So: 29.3/(16*307.86) = 0.006mpg

But that's spread across 15,200 containers: 90mpg/container

A standard container will take between 3 and 5 cars, so that's going up to 360mpg per car. The fuel isn't particularly clean (understatement of the millenium) but it is a single journey for each car, with a pretty good fuel efficiency.

Of course if they transitioned to nuclear powered container ship we'd be in a much nicer place - but the panic would be hilarious.