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I guess a suggestion that we would all (hypermilers, SUV's, 4x4s) agree on and would help all of us would be to reduce the stoplight delays mentioned by someone above. I'm a highway engineer, somewhere I came across a report that said 20% of -ALL- fuel consumed is wasted at red lights. 20% wasted. That has an incredible impact on the price of fuel, energy consumed, emissions, that could be saved without hurting anyone (who wouldn't want to get to their destination quicker?) Us highway designers have actually been asked to go out of our way to time stoplights to prevent traffic progression (thus, slowing avg traffic speed down thereby appeasing city officials). Just think if us designers were asked to improve traffic progression instead of curbing it... the fuel savings that would follow would make even the most careless of SUV commuters a hypermiler without changing their driving habits.
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