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My first highway tractor had a 400 hp mechanical fuel delivery system engine and I got 4-4.2 mpg jerking a 2 axle trailer, my second truck had 475 hp and was computer controlled fuel system jerking a 3 axle trailer and I went up to 7.5 mpg ( the fuel savings made the truck payments every month), my third truck was 575 hp , pulling same trailer and I averaged 9 mpg...all 3 were geared 3:11...so technology can produce better millage.
 
Not sure if or when the next ice age will occur but I'm glad I won't be around for it, sounds a bit beyond my shovelling capability......

from google AI...... During the last ice age, the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Canada reached a maximum thickness of approximately 4,000 meters (13,000 feet). In some areas, such as Nunavik, Quebec, the ice was even thicker, reaching up to 3.2 kilometers (2 miles). The Cordilleran ice sheet, another significant ice sheet in Canada, may have been close to 2,000 meters (6,500 feet) thick.

Things started warming up about 10,000 years ago and it was only 5000 years ago that it finally melted. Somewhere around the stone age to bronze age transition.
 
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During the last ice age, the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Canada reached a maximum thickness of approximately 4,000 meters (13,000 feet).

I like to tell those who will listen that my farm sits on a glacial moraine. That's why I have so many rocks on my farm. The ice was a mile high here during the last ice age.
 
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