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Old 12-12-2009, 12:09 PM   #7 (permalink)
MadisonMPG
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Originally Posted by RobertSmalls View Post
Crunching your numbers, she saved 0.87 hours by driving faster, but you saved $7.38 by driving slower. Would you be willing to spend $8.48/hr to be at home instead of sitting in a car?

But if you had taken a car that uses half as much fuel as the Caravan, you would have saved $4.24/hr. To me, that's clearly a poor optimization, especially when there's two people in the car. Drive faster; you'll get there sooner.
He could have driven 200mph, gotten there a lot faster and "save" a lot of time.

Most of the time that I drive slow, I don't mind the extra time. I got some good jams on the radio and i'm just taking my time.
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