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		swolios 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 Iowa has over 68,000 miles of gravel roads, something like 60% of the state's roads. "Offroad" is 60% of the state 50+% of the year This could be said anywhere with snow, by time the DOT repairs the frost heave after winter its winter again.

Mawr 11 days ago [–]

Packed gravel is not "offroad", it's just a normal, flat road. Snow makes no difference either, obviously. You'd need to have quite a lot of snowfall to make travel in a regular car hard to impossible.

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