hypermiling - thinking about zero mpg

think about how much gas mileage you are getting when you are putting on your brakes, and when you are stopped at a red light

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• gas
• mileage
• mpg
• hypermiling
• gasoline
• prices
• hybrid
• prius
• fuel
• driving
• cars
• waste
• traffic
• congestion

[oesbob]

Save all the money you can hypermiling....

You need the cash later to fix that hybrid and replace those batteries!

Sure the hybrid is a low polluter, as a final product. But the manufacturing of the car is where it's pollution begins. Especially the batteries.

Oh wait... the batteries are made in China...]

Who cares right?

Wrong...

Pollution is pollution.

[cessna421ace]

No one is causing accidents from this driving style. How can we cause accidents by going slower? We can cause more by going faster and if you're behind the slow people like myself approaching a stoplight... guess what... we will both be at that stoplight until it turns green. We save our gas and yours without you even trying. By driving this way I can get an additional 4 mpg in town. That's about 12 dollars per tank savings.

[mb013962]

wow

[beach1963]

"Normal" driving with a 2007 VW Rabbit got me 22 mpg in town, but gentle acceleration and shifting gears at lower rpm resulted in 25-28 mpg *in town* with every tank.

Driving slower with that same Dodge diesel truck also increased my hwy. mpg:

70 mph= 21-23

65 mph= 24

55 mph= 28

So driving slower means 25% savings in fuel for me, consistent over the last 160,000 miles I've driven the same truck, and gets me an extra 210 miles out of each tank on the highway. Yes, still in the right lane. :-)

[beach1963]

First off, yes- I stay over in the right lane! :-) I drive a Dodge diesel truck, and since gently doesn't use the turbo as much, my city mileage improved from 16 mpg up to 20 mpg, a savings of 25% over my previous driving. For my 35 gal. tank, that's like getting 8.75 gal. free, which equals $25 worth of fuel each tank. Yes, driving smart is well worth it for me; I fill up every three weeks, so that equals over $400 a year I save.

[i90east]

Obama should have told us about this instead of telling us to inflate our tires!

[rkozna107]

love the comment, so true.

[zee339]

i apologize, i was probably having a bad day.

[james42519]

yours just happened to be the first i seen. i don't look at all the comments on videos usually. just the ones under the video. i was trying to be funny but you seem to have taking it seriously

[zee339]

you suck. out of all the posts to this video, mine is the tamest. you are such a coward that you won't address some REAL insults even under anonymity. loser.

[james42519]

so do a lot of people who want to save gas and money. i don't think that is a insult like you are trying to make it. it's kinda a complement so thanks. what's the point in racing to a light? there is none.