Beer Pints Per Mile

A comment on my post about how to choose airline travel for maximum efficiency directed me to the AirScape Engineers Blog wherein I found this wonderful little chart (more on the specifics of the calculations can be found there):

Mode	kW-h/km	kcal/mile	Miles/gallon	kW-h/mile	beer-pints/mile
Bicycle	0.0361	50	629	0.058	0.23
747	0.2521	350	90	0.407	1.59
Electric Car	0.1550	215	146	0.250	0.98
SUV	1.5128	2098	15	2.440	9.54
Train	0.0820	114	277	0.132	0.52

Now, why "Beer Pints Per Mile" isn't the metric of choice in the field is beyond me - it is brilliant!  Here is how I figure it: distance from my house to the Pilsner Room, Deschutes Portland Pub, Rogue is about 6 miles, or 12 miles round trip.  Thus by riding my bike, which I always try and do, burns about 3 pints.  It is rare that I even make it to three pints unless I am lounging for many hours, so essentially my beer consumption is entirely guilt free!  HUB is only about 3 miles, so a round-trip is only 1.5 pints, but then they serve their beer in crazy 13-point-something ounce glasses, so I'm good for about two.  It would be interesting to know how walking fares in this comparison.

Anyway, time for a biking-themed shirt that says "powered by pints"!

And, by the way, AirScape is an Ashland (or Medford?) based company that sells house fans to use natural ventilation to cool houses.  Cool.