I just got home from an overnight trip to Albion, Washington where I went to visit friends of mine and attend their daughter's first birthday party.
I used hypermiling techniques on my drive home again (I don't know right now how much fuel I ended up using for the round-trip yet, however). Many of my fellow drivers, especially folks driving vehicles bearing Idaho plates, obviously were not doing the same.
The fact that they were frequently far in excess of posted speed limits aside, I just have to wonder - do these people not understand that they're just burning their money? The poor driving habits I observe on a regular basis, most of which degrade the fuel economy of the vehicles these folks are in, don't really get them where they're going all that much faster and at a greater cost (not to mention that they are frequently just begging for a law enforcement officer to write them a speeding ticket).
You know who you are, and I just have to ask: is needlessly turning your hard earned money into carbon monoxide worth it?
2 comments:
Which hypermiling techniques did you use on your two trips?
Mostly I kept my speed down a bit, climbed hills a little slower in a lower gear and coasted down hills in neutral.
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