I have an automatic right now, that I currently don't drive; my little brother has it while I am at school. I only started to begin using some efficiency techniques before I went back to using my legs. Keeping the RPM low - although I need to find the optimal range somewhere for my 2001 Focus SE - often by accelerating at a moderate pace and letting up on the accelerator so the tranny will shift earlier. I experienced huge savings just by keeping a more constant RPM and not a constant speed over the white and green mountains. I tried EOC and my car didn't like it, to say the least... the nasty thud scared me.
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