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Old 10-18-2012, 10:16 PM   #1338 (permalink)
Mustang Dave
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Originally Posted by wmjinman View Post
If you finish up some around-town errands, you don't like the "Current" trip mpg on your ScanGauge and decide to head out on an "easy" stretch of road for a few miles at your "maximum mpg speed" to "up" your average for the trip.
I've never done that. Burning fuel to artificially increase average MPG on a tank is a net loss in necessary miles per gallon. I'll just take my lumps and post my fill-ups in my fuel log.
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Just 'cuz you can't do it, don't mean it can't be done...
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The presence of traffic is the single most complicating factor of hypermiling. I know what I'm going to do, it's contending with whatever the hell all these other people are going to do that makes things hard.
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