Slow Moving not only helps the mind, but it seems it helps the pocketbook (and the earth) as well. The answer resides in a certain leaden appendage.
Wanna get better gas mileage? Drive easier. That means less rapid acceleration and hard stops. You could save upwards of 30 percent. How does that compute? Well, if you’re getting 22 MPG now, driving a little gentler could raise your car’s MPG to around 30. Not bad, huh?
Perhaps the meek shall inherit the road.
I agree 100% that ‘driving easier’ saves gas, but that does NOT mean that ‘driving slower’ saves gas!
Accelerating too slow wastes gas just as driving too slow wastes gas. Each gear has an ideal acceleration sweet spot as well as a travel speed sweet spot.
And not only does it waste gas, driving too slow often also causes severe traffic congestion which wastes tons of gas every day! Driving too slow and accelerating too slow will also often make it so that you have to wait ideling at an extra light or two, which is NOT saving gas.
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By: Hunter (Gas Saving Expert) on May 13, 2008
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