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Old 10-14-2009, 03:28 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Hello -

Today I got 49.4 MPG on the way to work. I took an alternate route that swapped a few freeway miles for a few city miles, but avoided the monster traffic jams that I was seeing on sigalert.com . I can normally get sub-60 MPG. I think 57 MPG is about "normal" for my regular route. That would mean :

49.4 / 57 = 0.866666 => 86.7% => a 13.3% drop in MPG.

I am not making any scientific claims here, but I think I am seeing "ballpark same" results as the study.

CarloSW2
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