Will the Gumout 2-step fuel system cleaning service improve my gas mileage?
I currently drive a 2005 Ford Escape (4 cylinders) and I currently get 12 mpg on streets and 16 on highways. When I got my car inspected, the guy recommended a fuel system cleaning system. He said it would cost $80 but would boost mpg by 5 mpg, It was a Firestone Auto Center but I'm not sure what type of cleaning it is. Another store offers the "gumout 2-step fuel system cleaning service" for $20. The guy told me it's the same thing and that they just don't mark up the price as much. Has anyone had this service done? Does it really make a difference? $20 is better than $80, but I don't want to spend the money if it won't make a difference.
How would you want Indian railways to improve it's catering services in premium trains?
Its million dollar question what satisfy the the various jinda of passengers so one cant decide which menu of what kind of food is best for the 1000 passengers who are in different mood and different preference ,so railway should decide one kind of menu rathee then to satisfy each every passengers of train, definetly with humein practice.
How do you think the transport system could be improved?
More bicycle friendly streets, solar powered vehicles, mass transit in having more trains, higher speed trains, incentives for public transportation... just look at Europe. The money may have to come from taxes though.
How would nationalization of British railways improve services for the customer?
The train operating companies make significant profits. If they were publically owned, then that profit could be re-invested or returned to the tax payer.I’m not sure how much it is recently: this link [1] says £300million in 2011/12 which is not a vast amount but not insignificantIt is not as if they are private companies (“Private companies are more efficient than state owned ones”). They ARE state owned: just by the French, German or Dutch state.So British passengers and taxpayers are sending money to French, German & Dutch taxpayers. [2]So nationalization would mean a domestic state owned company who would be more responsive than a foreign state owned one.We currently have stupid fragmentation: between regions and between operations & infrastructure. That makes planning & cooperation harder and more expensive.And every one of those interfaces requires contracts, lawyers, fees and inefficiency. So it is not just profits that we would benefit from - there are huge rafts of fragmentation that we would recover.More fragmentation. Right now each of the TOCs buys trains separately, and has its own branding, operations, routines - and costs. They have separate contracts and no economies of scale. That is daft. Again, simple inefficiency.We already have some state owned transport #1. And it worked remarkably well. In 2009, the East Coast line was taken into public ownership (after National Express walked out on the contract) and it was a huge success. The service had a 91% customer satisfaction rate, required much less public subsidy, paid back £1 billion to the Treasury and was the most efficient franchise in the UK.The government reprivatised the East Coast line in 2015, handing it to Virgin Trains. But this example shows that if the railways were run for people not profit they could keep passengers happy and save us all money.[3]We already have publically own transport #2. And it works remarkably well. So well that Tories (!) boast about it being state owned!That poster was put up by Tory Boris Johnson in 2015. I always thought Labour should just have used it as one of their election posters “We agree with Boris”Footnotes[1] Do train operating companies earn 'massive' profits?[2] Here's How Much Foreign Governments Are Making From Britain's Privatised Railways[3] Let's run our railway for people not profit
What are ways to improve the quality and hygiene of catering services in Indian Railways?
By giving contracts to private restaurant chains even if it requires a different food system for different railway zones and then make sure that they are held responsible for their mistakes. It would increase the price of food served in railway but at the same time, quality will also increase and IR can make money too. Now the question comes why those food chain would serve quality food? Because Indian Railway is a big market for them and a way for marketing too. It will make sense for them to serve good quality food in railways.
A researcher surveys people at a train station?...?
A researcher surveys people at a train station about whether they favor a tax increase to improve railroad service. Explain why the following statement is misleading: “75% of commuters support a railroad tax increase.” A) The sample is biased because train riders are more likely to favor better railroad service than commuters who drive or use other types of transportation. B) The sample is biased because the researcher did not say how large the tax increase would be. C) The statement is misleading because not enough people were surveyed. D) The data includes outliers, so the mean percentage is not a fair measure. Please I just don't understand?....
Why is road transport better than the railways?
Road transport is better in the hills and mountainous regions. Roads can be laid in all terrain so it is better than the railways. For short distances, like goods carried from rural area to urban area, road transport is better.But for heavy goods and items like tanks, or bulk goods like wheat from Punjab to Bihar, rail transport is better.On Konkan Railway they have developed the RORO system “Roll On, Roll Off”, where trucks with goods in them drive on to flat bed rail cars at one end of the journey and travel over long distance on the railway track and at the other end the trucks just get off the rail cars and reach the destination a short distance away. This way roads have not to be laid in the Western Ghats, thus maintaining the sanctity of the Ghats. This way considerable fuel is saved as well as protecting the ecosystem. The 741 km (461 mi) line connects Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka states. The first train on the completed track was flagged off on January 26, 1998.