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Old 12-18-2009, 09:15 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Fr3AkAzOiD View Post
...Little things like parking in the garage and then walking to get the mail instead of pulling up to the mailbox, idling for 20 seconds, then accelerating from a stop has added a good 1 or 2 mpg per tank.
Being a Prius owner and long time aficionado of fuel efficient autos, I had to read about a conventional auto that rivals the best hybrid ever made. I was starting to believe, until I read that stopping at the mailbox costs you 1-2 mpg per tank. So every traffic light, cow in the road, or any other stop you encounter once a day drops your FE the same? A tenth of an MPG on a tank, maybe. If you see 1-2 MPG for this event, there is no way you'd be getting 55 MPG overall.
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