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Hello, thanks for tuning in. Welcome to the podcast. As we know, by now, I'm Ben, and I am hanging out here with HowStuffWorks.com's own Scott Benjamin. Hey, Ben, how's it going? It's going pretty well, man. Hey, you're still the auto editor, right? Correct, yes. Oh, good, good, because otherwise this would be kind of awkward.

Yeah, it would.

I mean, we could still hang out, but, you know.

Talking about cars, just hanging out. Yeah, we'd just be like, yeah, we'd just be hanging out.

And how fortuitous it is that you're still the auto editor, and I still have questions for you.

So let me give it a shot here.

You know how whenever you see a car commercial or whenever

you hear something from a consumer guide about a vehicle, oftentimes they also include the

estimated miles per gallon or MPG. Sure. Yeah, they do. Usually it's broken down even into city and highway miles.

If you notice that, and there's a reason for that.

That's from very detailed testing that happens in a lab.

It's actually a government agency that does that.

Yes, the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency agency and they're in charge of uh...

you know we hear a lot about them from uh... miles miles per gallon is one of

actually one of the things that we might not be so familiar with them doing because

a lot of times they're associated with pollution control or with supervising the contaminants

or the pollution or the waste disposal practices of businesses and, you know, superfund sites

and things like that.

Yeah.

But they're also in charge of MPG.

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