Staturday: Drive Slower

Posted by: GOOD
on October 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm

staturday60mpg

Driving faster than 60 miles per hour starts to drastically reduce your fuel economy. In fact, according to the EPA, for every 5 miles per hour you drive over 60 mph, you are paying an extra $.24 a gallon for your gas.

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Categories: Environment
Tags: Environment , EPA , Fuel Economy , Mobility , Speed Limit

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- Posted by: jrdx
- on October 17, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Yep: a car’s engine is tuned for optimal efficiency somewhere around 50 mph (though it varies by car). This Consumer Reports blog from September (http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/2009/09/tested-speed-vs-fuel-economy.html) gives a more quantitative idea of how your fuel economy declines as you go faster, using several cars where the results were actually measured. In these examples, cars lost about 5 mpg for every 10 mph over 55 mph.Of course, if we all just drove less, we’d have much more of an effect on reducing fuel consumption ….