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To: Dukes Travels

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.


3 posted on 06/16/2008 6:03:29 AM PDT by TonyM (E)
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To: TonyM
This should get you over 100 mpg.

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.

6 posted on 06/16/2008 6:09:59 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: TonyM
Only go places that are downhill so you can just coast your way there. This should get you over 100 mpg.

The democrat solution to energy. Everything goes downhill fast!

42 posted on 06/16/2008 7:00:50 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED)
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To: TonyM
"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."

Excellent tip!

Considering tangential matters will help too...

For example, we need to consider all of the costs of driving...if we drive to the grocery store and buy tomatos, the weight of the tomatos increases the fuel cost on the return trip due to the extra weight. Then the trip to the hospital due to the salmanella and the hospital costs themselves are all related to that original trip. So we need to reconsider the food we eat.

I suggest we think about eating only dehydrated foods. We can store a supply that lasts longer, they weigh so much less, so we don't have to go to the store as often and when we do, our load is so much lighter that we save huge amounts of fuel.

And don't buy any corn.

48 posted on 06/16/2008 7:14:18 AM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: TonyM
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.

If that is not geographically possible then do the next best thing. Mount larger diameter tires on the rear and smallest available in front. That way you're always going downhill and should improve gas mileage ;-)

92 posted on 06/16/2008 12:29:26 PM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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