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Originally Posted by sid
Post about how minimizing consumption is more important than FE
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Originally Posted by abell75
For most people the real goal is $$$ savings.
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sid, I agree with your approach, and I think most others here do as well. Some signatures have comparisons between bike miles and car miles. While we are doing what we can to improve FE, it's under the assumption that we've done what we can to minimize the external factors we can control (running all errands at once, taking the shorter route when we can, etc).
I recently started driving through STL metro on a 4 lane stop&go road instead of I-55 because it shaves my commute distance from 28 to 21 miles. My FE might not be quite as good (too early to tell), but my total consumption is very likely to go down.