Like everyone else, we're always looking for ways to save money - on gas and everything else! My husband does a lot of driving, both short trips around town as a delivery driver and about 6 days a week he commutes 25 miles to his "regular" job.
We had heard on the television or read somewhere that 55 miles per hour was the most efficient speed at which to drive. Last time he got gas and filled up the tank. He filled up today and called me while waiting in line to buy gas all excited!
He had calculated his mileage and he said he has improved his mileage by 20%. The only change he has made is that he strictly adheres to a 55 mph driving speed on the interstate. On part of his commute he said he gets a few dirty looks from other interstate commuters who like to zoom by at 70+mph, but today he definitely felt it was worth it! It only takes a very few extra minutes to slow down a few miles per hour and if time is money, well . . . better gas mileage = less gas = less money spent!
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1 - The next time you fill up your gas tank, write down the odometer mileage of your car or reset your trip odometer to zero.
2 - After driving around, fill up your gas tank and again write down the mileage.
3 - Subtract the second mileage reading from the first. Now divide the miles you traveled by the number of gallons you put in the gas tank on the second fill up.
4 - This is your miles per gallon, MPG, number. After you implement the gas savings tips, check to see how much your gas mileage has improved.
Well worth reading. And thank you for sharing your personal experience about this.
What What gripes me the most is that we have had the technology for almost a century to quintuple the fuel efficiency of internal combustion engines. Going back to 1936, a Canadian inventor named Charles Pogue came up with a carburetor that would allow mileage of 70-100 MPG. I built a modified design from this in the '80s and put it on my IH Travelall (the forerunner of the modern SUV) that had a 302CC, 8-cylinder engine. I raised my MPG from 10MPG to close to 70MPG.
The automobile manufacturers I took this to universally recommended that I not only forget about it, but that I should change my name and keep a very low profile.
$36 per month = $432 per year I don't know about you, but $432 is a lot of money to me:-)
However driving 55 on the interstates here would get me ran over, even in the slow lane. I have been staying steady at 65 by using the cruise control. The other drivers still hate me, but they aren't running me over.