Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:50:59 -0400
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Subject: More Energy Saving (driving)
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There are all types of things that one can do with driving.
Some are dangerous, some are illegal, so keep this in mind.
BRAKES: Brakes waste fuel!
First every time you use your brakes, you now have wasted the
energy used, that got the vehicle moving. So no brakes or as
little as possible. This means, every time you see a red light
up ahead, you must not accellerate begond just enough to
get to the light. In my neck of the woods, this works about 50%
of the time. There are many places where you can't see the
light until its to late, and you have to brake. Stop signs
are the same thing. Many stop signs are place right at
the bottom of hills, and there is little you can do but run
the stop sign. At least with a light you have a chance
of getting it green and can keep you momentum going.
Brakes are also use WAY to much around bends. Learn
how to NEVER brake around bends. This is mainly going to be
limited to your vehicles traction. Very very few cars flip over.
Wet or slippery roads are your only reason for braking
around bends, but everyone does it. Again in my neck of the
woods, about 50% of the time, there is other traffic in front of
you and they slow down around bends. The best you can do
is leave enough distance so that going into a bend that they
are slowing for, you catch up to them.
Simple: drive, pretending you did not have any brakes.
Lots to be said but I'm out of time
JOE W.
monte merrick wrote:
> elaborate please.
>
> i think i know how to drive but, like all perfectionists, i recognize
> my knowledge as provisional and always i am at the ready to learn.
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:29 PM, -------------------- wrote:
>
> The best think anyone can do to save fuel is learn how to drive.
> Its not fun, or easy, but it works.
> Joe. W
>
>
> David Bohannan wrote:
>
>> I've been on a mission to see what other things can be done to
>> increase mpg,
>> etc when water injection came to mind...
>>
>> A couple searches yielded this website:
>> http://www.eagle-research.com/index.html
>>
>> Someone in close proximity told me its all snake-oil...but then again,
>> literally last Friday he just bought his 3rd car- a 2006 Ford
>> Expedition-
>> what the heck does he care!??!
>>
>> Anyhow, is there any credibility to this type of stuff? I know there
>> are
>> listmembers that could prolly weigh in on this...
>>
>> --
>> Dave - KC9FYM
>> http://fjazzbass.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> "I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and am still
> on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken to concerning
> them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have
> met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and
> even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious
> to recover them as if they had lost them themselves." - henry thoreau
>
>
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