Gas Saving Old Wives Tales
Edmunds.com has tested some oft-spoken gas-saving tips and writes on which ones actually help and which ones are just tales we tell ourselves to make us feel better.
They claim that a few key changes to your driving habits can improve your fuel economy up to 37%. The ones that work include :
Drive Less Aggressively
Drive The Speed Limit
Use Cruise Control
Avoid Excessive Idling
For the breakdown and stats, click here. And hey, wait a minute, there’s a whole site dedicated to this sort of stuff? We have to see what that’s all about.
Thanks Lifehacker!
Photo credit: The ARC Project
Nathan was thinking green at 11:35 AM on May 9, 2006
Comments are sorta kinda broken right now. We're working on it but to save energy can only work in daytime when solar system is at peak performance.
