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Pretty easily. I don't have much data on our current usage because my girlfriend just started a new job a couple weeks ago and is now driving to work instead of walking (~10 km round trip, but in traffic, so not great gas mileage), but before that I'd typically only put ~30 litres (~8 gal) into my car once every month or so. I'm fairly certain that even now we could still get away with only 4 gallons a week without making any changes, but there's also plenty of room to make changes as needed (driving to work isn't entirely necessary for her, we could cut Costco out of our grocery routine and save a ~19 km trip every other week).

Really, if she weren't driving to work, we could easily get away with a carshare instead of owning a car. We bought this one at Covid's peak, though, so carsharing wasn't the most attractive prospect, plus she's bouncing between contracts and it's hard to predict whether or not she'll need to drive to a given job (this one's certainly walkable, but she's had others that absolutely were not), so we kind of had to buy one. Hopefully our situation will be more amenable to just not having a car by the next time we're looking for one.

Lokarin posted...

how efficient were cars of the era so we can adjust for scale

Presumably quite a bit less efficient, but it's also worth noting that this was before the postwar boom in car-infested infrastructure that still defines so much of North American city design. In the 40's, most city neighbourhoods were still largely walkable and had functional transit systems, so people didn't necessarily need cars for everyday life the way so many do now.