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Old 05-03-2011, 02:30 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Is your commute mostly highway? An easily removable aero bedcover attached with hitch pins would help and a grill block. Get a Scanguage or MPGuino and pulse and glide up and down those Kentucky hills. Engine Off Coasting (EOC) isn't for everyone but it will boost your mileage numbers. Even 4x4 trucks get good mileage coasting with the engine off.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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