[AT] OT: Gas story

[Dave Merchant]

At 11:06 AM 7/3/2007, you wrote:
>On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:52:56 am Francis Robinson wrote:
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>In any case, touching the brakes is the worst thing you can do - you are
>turning all your energy into heat.

In fact, that's one of the main reasons for hybrids.
They are designed to level out the load when you drive like an idiot,
and recapture at least some of the wasted braking energy.

However - I went looking on Google, found several sites about complaints
that hybrids aren't delivering on the mileage claims, by a large margin.

Found a mileage chart showing that some hybrids are only getting close
to the same mpg I've observed with my old V6 Dodge Caravan.

BTW, some of the goofy accelerator action you're seeing going by on
your road is probably not the driver but the cruise control.
Many cruise boxes aren't very smart, and overreact as you describe.

I use cruise control, but mostly just to keep my speed down to where I 
don't get busted...

Dave Merchant


> >     People don't have to go to extremes with fuel mileage... If starting
> > tomorrow all drivers across the country would just switch to driving
> > "reasonable" the amount of fuel required would drop like a rock. Maybe as
> > much as 15 to 20%. That is not small potatoes. Its never going to happen of
> > course... but what a difference it could make.
> >     The public wants good mileage but they want the car makers to do it for
> > them...
>
>True.
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