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My parents live in Florida and drive a Mercedes - not too eco friendly and frankly, they never cared about gas mileage. However, on a recent trip up to lovely Jersey to visit me and my boyfriend, CoasterToaster, they were given a little hypermiling 101. My dad seemed interested and impressed with our results, but honestly, I never thought he would go home and apply any of this newfound knowledge to his own driving.

I was wrong!

The other day my father called saying he increased his tire pressure, slowed down his driving overall, turned the car off at long lights, and even turned off the AC (which is hard to do in Florida!). He got 25 mpg, which is pretty good for his 4-wheel drive car. Now it's a game for him to see how well he can do every tank. Go Dad!

This makes me feel positive that with a little knowledge and assistance, we can help do our part by spreading the word about better driving and saving fuel. If it worked for my dad, it can really work with anyone! ;)

:woot: :Banane11:

-the dellanator

ps - this week i finally broke 30 mpg!

Nice job :)

People will comment about my commute, and I will say something like "Yeah, but I fgured out how to get great mileage out of my car" and they will inquire how many, and I tell them I have been getting 50 +. That gets their attention, and they will usually ask how, so I tell them the easy basic, stuff. I had one person tell me they improved their mileage so far. Not sure if others implemented or not. But driving this past weekend, I found I was doing HM techniques even though I was stuck doing high speed driving trying to follow someone. The pasenger in the car commented on my gliding and I pointed out the scanguage. He was pretty impressed with the numbers he was seeing (high 40' average, but I love how those numbers shoot up when in n-ice, drives the point home), and I told him I could do better normally... So we shall see if any of it sticks LOL...

Glad to hear you got a convert LOL... :) Gives me hope.