save on gas big time and it is FREE

we all can save a ton on gas just by slowing down our speeds
milage ratings is done at 55 not 70 mph ,80 mph or 90 mph that everyone
does on the freeway even on regular roads slow down and save 20 percent
on gas COST TO YOU NOTHING!!!1

 

Except time. Lots and lots of time.

 

You can save even more gas by carpooling. Doesn't waste any time, and
doubles your gas mileage just by adding one extra person who would
otherwise have used his car.

Let's stick it to the greedy oil companies! Take 4 or 5 people with you to
work!!! Forward this to everybody you know !!!!!!!!!

 

Carpooling is only a "no-time" option if you're living with the person
you're carpooling with. And you need to be at work at the exact same
time they do. My wife and I don't even meet that second requirement
(even though I'm a professor and she's a grad student in the same
department at the same university).

When I see that last exclamation, I've got a pretty good clue I don't
want to send the message to *anyone* I know, since the next package I
received from them would likely be ticking.

 

You cradle-robber, you.

Ted

 

there is a basic time chart in drivers ed class work time > speed and you
will find the time difference is very little

 

I suppose in my own defense I should mention that we were married
before I went to work at NMSU 23 years ago, and (of course) also
before she went back to school...

 

(IFYTP)

Let's see, Albuquerque is 220 miles away from here. At 80 mph that's
about two hours, 45 minutes. At 55 it's four hours.

 

Being an engineering alumnus of NMSU, I feel qualified to do the
math 220 miles at 55MPH and 30 MPG uses 7.33 gallons of gas. 220
miles at 80MPH and 24 MPG (using Philty's 20% savings factor) is 9.17
gallons. So the extra fuel is about 1.84 gallons, which is less than
$6.00 at today's prices. 1.25 hours of my time is worth more than
$6.00 to me, so I'm with Joe....I'll do the 80 MPH route. That's only
5 over the speed limit on I-25, you won't even get a ticket for
that You would likely, however, get run over at 55 MPH.

 

Move to Albuquerque...

DAS

For direct replies replace nospam with schmetterling

 

I think I'm better off making that drive once in a blue moon than
every day to go to work...

 

you missed two figures based on 3 weeks ago pricing of $6.00 * 1 million people
doing the same thing equals 6 million dollars saved on your figure and 1.84
gallons * 1 million comes to a whole lot of gas not being sold slowing demand
forcing the refiners to lower the price of gas since they can not store gas long
term or reformulate it due to epa regs. of summer and winter blends of fuel in
most parts of the country

 

OK. So tell Exxon they are out $6 million. Now see what that does to
the price of their gas.

I will grant you one point, though....on my daily 31 mile one-way
commute to work, the 3-4 minutes I save by doing speed limit vs. 55
are probably negligible. If I really thought I'd get 20% better
mileage by doing 55 I probably would try it. But I suspect it would be
more like 5%.

 

Maybe you should try it for a week and see what happens.

I'm very interested in gas mileage and price because I drive a 150 mile
delivery route every day. I keep my tires properly inflated and I do
regular tune ups. At today's prices, if I can save a few gallons in a
week, that goes a long way.

 

Tell you what, I will do just that. I have about 7000 miles of
commuting experience in this car at the speed limit. I'm getting right
at 25MPG for those 7000 miles. I need to fill up Tuesday on the way
to work. I'll do next week at 55 max and let you know what happens.

 

You might be very surprised. I ride a 1980 Honda CB750K with
NO faring on my daily 30 mile round trip highway commute. This
bike puts me in a vertically seated position. You
don't really feel the wind much up to 55Mph, but start going much
above that and you really feel it. I'd guesstimate it takes twice the
strength to hold on to the handlebars at 65Mph as at 55Mph, but it
definitely does not take twice the strength to hold on to the bars at
55Mph as it does at 45Mph. If I want to go much above 80 I have
to tuck down, or I won't have good enough control over the bike.

Ted

 

i know it does because i get 2 extra days out my gas back and forth to work on the
eway
remember when there was a 55 mph speed limit why do u think we had it

 

hey ted i used to ride my honda xr 350on the frozen lakes and it's speedo
went to 110
ever do a 100 on a bike, hoollly smokes talk about having to hold on to the
bars
and at that speed the studs did not due much

 

I used to get gas like that, too.
The 55 limit never did much good out here in the wide open spaces.
Most folks still drove 70 or more.

 

really !were are you at? i know in michigan there is some long flat freeways and i used
to go from southern michigan to the the northern part were my cabin is, at 55 and it
added 20 minutes to the trip but kept fuel useage to a 1/4 tank with a bike in the bed
and when the gas was 1.25 i would take my grand marquies and it would make the 172 mile
trip on 7 bucs