The reason people don't think it's because in their mind they don't understand a Watt is.
Your average gasoline gallon has 33kW worth of energy in it, which can drive your car for about 35 miles or around 1kW / mile.
Look at your average table saw running at 600W of consumption and consider that piece of hardware is using up enough power to move your 3000 pound car a little over half a mile.
> ...gasoline gallon has 33kW worth of energy in it...
kW are a unit of power (energy/time, 1 W = 1 Joule/s), which is not relevant to measure energy content (for a gallon of gas). You'd want plain Joules for that.
Your average gasoline gallon has 33kW worth of energy in it, which can drive your car for about 35 miles or around 1kW / mile.
Look at your average table saw running at 600W of consumption and consider that piece of hardware is using up enough power to move your 3000 pound car a little over half a mile.