I live 3 1/2 miles from work and can take side streets. 69-72 MPG. top speed around 60. A tank of gas would cost about $8.50 and last a month.
Posted on 06/16/2008 5:57:29 AM PDT by Dukes Travels
Now that I have your attention, here’s how.
Slow down. Stop the jack rabbit starts. Don’t slam the brakes. Dump the junk in the trunk. Use the cruise. Ride on air. And sweat on the way home.
A properly maintained vehicle, plus changing your driving behavior can actually increase your gas mileage by 50 percent, which saves you $2 per gallon on your next gallon of gas. And I have the listeners who have done it to prove it. Here’s the math.
The pain at the pump is now averaging $4 a gallon. If you are currently getting 20 miles per gallon in the hot wheels of your choice and you increase the mileage by 50 percent, then you will be getting 30 miles per gallon. That’s 10 extra miles for which you will not have to buy gas. Therefore, you save $2, since you are paying $4 per 20 miles driven.
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I live 3 1/2 miles from work and can take side streets. 69-72 MPG. top speed around 60. A tank of gas would cost about $8.50 and last a month.
Here is another tip. Only go places that are downhill so you can just coast your way there. This should get you over 100 mpg.
And there is the problem. If Bush would simply announce that, effective tomorrow, he would open up ANWR, the OCS, and all federal lands to exploration and production of oil, the spot price of oil would fall like a stone. Congress IS the problem and until they open up our resources to exploration and production, you'll continue to line their pockets with the kickbacks and bribes that they must be collecting. If that weren't the case, then you have to believe they are so stupid they can't see that production, and only production, is going to ease the price you and I pay at the pump.
PING!
I'm skeptical since once I reset my fuel computer at the start of a long downhill and it only read 99.9 mpg the whole way down.
I live a bit farther from work, but I can take side streets.
I drive a full size GMC pickup truck. Its 4wd so it sits higher than a standard pickup. All and all, its a large, very visible vehicle that doesn’t exactly stop on a dime. Lately, I’ve been keeping my headlights on during the day just so I’m more visible.
And still, at least once a week, someone pulls out in front of me to the point I have to slam on my brakes to not hit them. Its better now that school is out. Not to stereotype, but the mothers driving their kids to school were some of the worst for making dangerous driving situations.
I think a motorcycle (I’m just not into scooters) would save me a bunch of money, but I’m afraid I’d be a hood ornament in less than a month. People just don’t pay attention.
That, and it snows like heck for several months out of the year where I live.
In todays cars doing what the article says will not increase your mileage by 50%.
I live 3 1/2 miles from work and can take side streets. 69-72 MPG. top speed around 60. A tank of gas would cost about $8.50 and last a month.
...hit a rock and you’re history.
First of all, they are good ideas but there is NO WAY to increase your efficiency by 50%. Maybe 20-25%, but not 50%.
Second, rolling the windows down will only help during stop and start driving. For highway speeds, turning the AC off and rolling the windows down actually creates more drag and uses more fuel than the windows up and the AC running. For those of us in the muggy southeast, running the car with the AC off simply isn’t an option.
I have a Toyota Corolla, stick-shift, it's rated at 38/42mpg. I drove 300 interstate miles and got 54mpg by setting the cruise at 55mph. that's significant but not 50%.
I won't do that experiment again, as it causes insanity.
I just reluctantly traded in my Infiniti QX56 (12-15mpg) for the 2009 Acura TSX (25-32mpg). I loved that SUV. I love this car more!
I like Herman Cain, but he lifted this from Consumer Reports this past month. I do not have a problem with that, but just give credit where its due, and do not pretend like this is your original idea.
I was almost wishing the cops would start staking out the place again. They used to be there once per month to make their ticket quota. This year, I saw them once.
Might be an option if I didn’t work in a 250 mile radius of my town. Might be an option if I didn’t have to carry a ton of tools, and parts on cow paths, in that 250 mile radius. Might be an option if I didn’t have to carry about 50 pounds of weather related clothing, all year round. Might be an option if I didn’t have to carry 200 pounds of sensitive electronic instruments around where ever I go. Might be an option if I had an 8 to 5 job in a place where it didn’t rain much. It is akin to being a trucker. There is no solution other than parking.
The real solution is getting Congress out of the fuel business.
I completely agree. You would have to be the world’s worst lead-foot already getting well under the advertised mileage to even have a shot at a 50% improvement.
Was this guy an accountant for Enron?
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