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Old 05-01-2005, 12:28 PM
Red_The_Impaler Red_The_Impaler is offline
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Question Inclined Driving- Your Gas Saving Methods

So, along my commute I have a 3 mile climb in each direction and it gets pretty steep, I was wondering what way to approach hills and/or mountains, or what ways do you use? Basically what I'm asking is do you accelerate up the hill/mountain as quickly as possible burning more gas for less time or do you accelerate slowly burning less gas for more time? I'm sure that you could perform some sort of mathematical equation for this, but I'm no mathematician, so I'll leave this to someone who wishes to figure it out. Any tips, tricks or otherwise?
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