A couple weeks ago I saw a post in an exhaust forum, and they said "a new exhaust won't change your mpg's very much if not at all. The best thing you can do is drive 5mph slower, and you'd be suprised how much your mpg's will go up". So last week on monday, I filled up my truck. Instead of driving 70mph everywhere like I used to, I started driving exactly 55mph, sometimes 50. Now, instead of going through a tank each week, I'm at the end of my second week with 1/4 of a tank left. I am more than impressed because now I have extra money. Looks like im going to be a granny driver until gas goes back down haha.

 

do what?

 

Are you illiterate? lol
I'll compress it for you since you don't understand lol...

I. Drove. Slower. And. Saved. Money. And. Gasoline.

 

I'm not.

Around here if you run 55 you'll be run over in short order, saving gas or no.

 

I try to drive the speed limit. In fact, they are putting campaigns up to drive the speed limit. Believe it or not, a speed limit is there for a reason... some engineer spent time and money to develop that speed limit and using the gov't to enforce it.

In my last few years of driving... speeding around only wastes... wastes lives and wastes fuel... why waste both?

 

Yes sir! Much better than wasting money on gimmicks! I can tell a difference in just 75 down to 70.

 

I got 17.5 on the way to Chicago going about 65 the whole way threw IL.

 

I hope you stayed south, cuz our tolls would have kicked you in the ding ding.

 

Nice!
17.5 is considered rare in my truck. I usually get around 14.5-15.0 doing 70 on a good day. But since I started slowing down and driving the speed limit, I'm now getting 16.5-17.5 at around 1500rpms.

 

It makes me laugh when I am on the highway doing the exact speed limit in the center lane in my police cruiser & nobody wants to pass me! (LOL) It looks like a giant NASCAR drafting train behind me in slow motion! (LOL)....Now if I was not there, thats another story! (LOL)

 

If you pull off the road, that's when the big wreck happens, just like in nascar.

 

I bet you never get people tailgating you either.
It always gets my goat when I am on the freeway here and I'll be in the right lane doing my thing at 68-72 mph, moving with the flow of traffic and the next thing you know there is a State Police cruiser coming up behind you in the left lane. No lights, no siren yet the way he is passing cars he clearly doing 80 plus.
All that does is tell other motorists that he feels he is above the law and the speed limits only apply to the other guy. Who's going to pull him over for speeding, a fellow officer ? NOT !
I have the utmost respect for law enforcement but I lose some whenever I see this. If a police officer is going to drive at those speeds on the interstate he had best be going to an emergency and he should have his lights and sirens on to warn traffic, otherwise he should be driving within the set speed limits just like he is expecting us to do.
risupercrewman or any other law enforcement officer here, whats your take on this behavior ?

 

Little known fact:

The 55 mph speed limit that is in most parts of the country is there not because of safety issues, but because officials mandated it during the gas crisis for conservation issues.

 

I always do the speed limit. If I go all highway I can get 19-19.5 mpg with the cruise set at 65 but around here where there's some stop and go and works only 15 miles away I get between 15-16 mpg for the most part.

 

I am solidly in the low 20-22 range on the highway. I get my best mileage at 45-50... my gryphon reads mid 20s.