CleanMPG Members Save 200,000 Gallons

[PaleMelanesian]

CleanMPG Gas Savings Reach 200,000 Gallons

Andrew McGuckin - CleanMPG - Aug. 6, 2008

Since the website's beginnings in February 2006, the ever-growing population of hypermilers has saved over 200,000 gallons of gas. At the time of this writing there were 7,550 registered CleanMPG members.

Over 1,800 vehicles have tanks logged on the site's mileage database. Included are hybrids, diesels, bikes, electric vehicles and conventional gas vehicles. SUV's, sedans, hatchbacks, wagons, and trucks are all being hypermiled. Cars right off the dealer lots, and cars dating back to 1967. Manual transmissions and automatics. Drivers from all over the world are hypermiling: Ireland, England, Norway, Spain, Germany, Poland, France, Portugal, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, the United States, and other countries.

Site founder Wayne Gerdes and many others have done countless news segments in print, online and on TV to spread the word. High-profile evening news events, televised gatherings, and informal friendly demonstrations are all helping. Word-of-mouth is a powerful force for change.

In the face of rising gas prices, there IS something that can be done. CleanMPG is showing the way. Congratulations to everyone involved in reaching this milestone.

Read more at CleanMPG.com.

[ATL]

the read more loop takes you to the homepage

[KenM2]

Around and around she goes, and where it ends......well...it don't

[A024523]

It is a huge milestone, but when I recently discovered two different people were already saving fuel (one at 140% of EPA) via this site who are not "members", I realized that the official number is likely understated. They just never felt the need to join, since all the information they needed was there. Furthermore, there are plenty of members here that have decreased fuel consumptions by carpooling, bicycling, public transit, and switching to 10 hour / 4 day work weeks. So I wouldn't be surprised if the real impact was much higher, such as 500,000 gallons.

[roadrunner]

200,000+gallons of fuel saved is a great number. I have been trying to findout how many gallons the DOD uses daily in the war in Iraq . It is somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 gallons daily. So what we have saved is gone in hours fighting the war in Iraq. Does anyone have an current figure of the gallons used daily in the Iraq war?

[run500mph]

Im sure it is a horrible amount of fuel used in Iraq and all the military operations the world over as well.

The war is essentially over- the violence is down to such a low level that Bush is sending more troops home and I heard the Iraq stock exchange is open and about 30,000 new business applications were turned in in a single month by Iraqi citizens. Clubs and restaurants and discos are flourishing.

I talk to soldiers all the time at the airports when I work and they tell me how chilled out it is over there in the vast majority of the nation there. Soldiers are seeing how well businesses are going in Baghdad and they are investing their own paychecks in Iraqi currency and stock.
Tourism is actually growing there as well. I know war is a horrible thing, but I wish more would be said about the Iraqi peoples day to day lives. If they focused on the USA's violence the way they focus on tiny pockets of Iraq in the media, the whole world would think we Americans run around bombing federal buildings, and cutting off peoples heads in buses with machetes, to name a few stories.

[run500mph]

More to the point, 200,000 gallons is a great thing and I agree the numbers are very understated there are several hundred thousand more....

A Million gallons is not far.

[kwj]

Roadrunner, I prefer to think of it as our 200,000 gallons of savings, are still in the ground, waiting for future use. Woot, woot.

While we are saving, that fsp that just accelerated around you, wasted more than you saved. But, if you weren't saving, his waste would be even more pronounced.

This only means we must save more while eliminating extremely wasteful habits.

[moneysaver]

The numbers are in and they are :drum roll: please.......200K and counting........ This is what can happen if people band together and try to make a difference.......Conservation is a way to go as we all can see but unfortunately most americans don't want to put in an effort to conserve. The magic $4/gallon is helping but if recent falling prices keep falling, i suspect that most people would return to their wasteful driving habits. Nonetheless, this is great achievement and everyone should be proud of it. Lets keep spreading the word and the numbers would even go up faster..

[Tochatihu]

I was a very poor hypermiler. Therefore, I had to 'abandon' the Prius, move to China and use bus & bicycle

Cheers to CleanMPG and all our fellow travellers.

DAS