Find the percentage of the energy spent on the journey

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Your car achieves 30 miles per gallon and weighs 3000 pounds. Suppose you travel for 15 miles and thereby consume 65 megajoules of "gasoline energy." What approximately is the percentage of the energy spent on the journey that actually goes to "moving you?" Show your work.

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