This single tip saves 20% gas!

[Mavster Mechanic]

In these tough times...
This single tip saves 20% gas.

Drive 20 mph slower.

Drive ~55 mph instead of ~75 mph.
This can be done by choosing different similar routes or by pairing up with other slower vehicles in the right lane. Can be relaxing too!

Will cost you minutes per day.

Go nearly 800 miles per tank.
(Hybrid)

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[tom_tucker]

In these tough times...
This single tip saves 20% gas.

Drive 20 mph slower.

Drive ~55 mph instead of ~75 mph.

In my area, that would put you in the junkyard by Thursday. I can't drive 55!

 

[Mavster Mechanic]

In my area, that would put you in the junkyard by Thursday. I can't drive 55!

Take a different road.
Very few places have one road to get there.

 

[tom_tucker]

Take a different road.
Very few places have one road to get there.

You would be on that road 'till Thursday then. I drive like Grandpa and get my doors blown off driving 75 on the highway. Others are doin' 90. 55? You're smoking crack, Chief.

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

In these tough times...
This single tip saves 20% gas.

Drive 20 mph slower.

Drive ~55 mph instead of ~75 mph.

Will cost you minutes per day.

Not practical here in Utah.

Take a different road.
Very few places have one road to get there.

Again not a lot of practical choices here in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming.........etc.

 

[RR - All the way]

Not practical here in Utah.

Again not a lot of practical choices here in Utah or Nevada.

I can see with all that traffic that it would be hazardous to drive 55....................

 

[RR - All the way]

You would be on that road 'till Thursday then. I drive like Grandpa and get my doors blown off driving 75 on the highway. Others are doin' 90. 55? You're smoking crack, Chief.

Obviously the OP lives in an area where driving 55 is an option. As I recall in the early 70's or thereabouts the speed limit was lowered to 55 even on interstates to conserve fuel. Not sure of the date.

I might have to smoke crack, Chief, to live in an area where other drivers are consistently doing 90 on a U.S. road system with no apparent speed limit enforcement. My 6 cents!

 

[RR - All the way]

For many time may be a concern. It takes 22 minutes to drive 20 miles at 55 mph. Only 16 minutes to drive 20 miles at 75 mph. SIX minutes difference. On a short trip you might slow down and smell the roses and have less stress???????
On a long trip I will be right there with you at speed limit and probably above. Just talking a short trip.

 

[Clarkdonbran]

I can’t drive 55!

 

[Ravinus]

Pass.

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

I can see with all that traffic that it would be hazardous to drive 55....................

Tom,
I'm guessing you're not familiar with interstate 15 through Utah.
Interstate 15 isn't exactly desolate.
Surely, you don't think it's safer to drive 55 on a lightly traveled road with an 80 mph limit. When there is a good possibility somebody could be coming up to behind you traveling 80- 85 miles an hour
Driving 55 holding up traffic on an 80 mph roadway is a good way to have a head-on accident by a driver passing everyone.

Nevada is also increasing their speed limit to 80 mph.

Portions of the Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming road networks have 80 mph posted limits.

Out West, we don't have time to fart around at 55.

 

[BLUEOVALRACER]

People need to at least drive the speed limit if not it's a hazard IMO. People who don't drive the speed limit should get tickets.

 

[Triangle6887]

During the fuel crisis in the 1970s, the US instituted a national highway speed limit of 55mph to save on fuel. My grandpa told me it was a long painful drive on I-84 between Portland and Boise at only 55mph back then! Nowadays most people are going 70-80mph on that stretch.

 

[Mavster Mechanic]

You would be on that road 'till Thursday then. I drive like Grandpa and get my doors blown off driving 75 on the highway. Others are doin' 90. 55? You're smoking crack, Chief.

Survivability in a crash at 90 MPH in a Maveick, about 1%.

Survivability in a crash at 55 MPH in a Maverick, about 80%.

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[Mavster Mechanic]

Tom,
I'm guessing you're not familiar with interstate 15 through Utah.
Interstate 15 isn't exactly desolate.
Surely, you don't think it's safer to drive 55 on a lightly traveled road with an 80 mph limit. When there is a good possibility somebody could be coming up to behind you traveling 80- 85 miles an hour
Driving 55 holding up traffic on an 80 mph roadway is a good way to have a head-on accident by a driver trying to do the speed limit.

Nevada is also increasing their speed limit to 80 mph.

Out west we don't have time to fart around at 55

In your worst case scenario 80 minus 55 = 25 mph closing speed. Most school zones are 25 MPH.

Meh. I'd go 65 in Utah so it's 15 MPH in that case. A sprint on foot.

Here's a neat trick the less than genius folks never think of: Find a Semi doing a speed you like and get 5 seconds in front of them. Hit Cruise control.

Spoiler alert: long distance truckers
Like to use cruise control too. And the independent owner / operators like to save fuel more than I do.

Good Example:

The semi will stay behind you for hours.
Blocking any speed demons.

I'm right there in the right lane going with that natural flow.
Blocking no one. No worry of speed demons.

My 30 miles (freeway) takes 32 minutes.
And I use half a gallon of gas.

A few miles of city leaving work.
A few miles of city followed by a few miles of residential arriving home in this blended 40% city : 60% highway average.

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