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taketwoaspirin,
Sorry to hear about your echo's ails. Makes me want to ask my mechanic to do an inspection for rust next time I take it in.
Sounds like you got some pretty MPG unfriendly road conditions. Still your gallon a week more than makes up for it. It's similar to the benefits of reducing & reusing over recycling.
I started working from home this past year which has helped my distance a lot but I could still reduce the number of trips I make into town. I've also started doing a better job of planning my trips to accomplish more errands on a single trip.
It would be an invaluable feature for the ecomodder garage to also include GPM(Gallons per month) and GPY(ear) statistics to give props to people like you. They already give props for Bicycle to Auto miles ratio which I applaud. And this may be even more important than the MPG focus. hmmm...
Good luck with keeping your echo alive and hopefully a formidable replacement comes affordably your way soon.
-Matthew
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