Bob, you can't dislike P&G too much....after all I believe your employer is associated with NASA who does P&G on the grandest scale of all. For example the
New Horizons mission:
- Earth to Low Orbit - 15 minutes
- "glide" 15-20 minutes in orbit
- 7-8 minute burn to leave Earth
- "glide" for a year
- "draft" Jupiter (gravity assist). New Horizons gains nearly 9,000mph
- "glide" nine years
- fly-by Pluto/Charon
Along with Voyager, Pioneer, Gaileo, Cassini–Huygens, to name a few, these deep-space probes are a remarkable feat of engineering.
P.S. I really can't think of anybody that uses P&G to the exclusion of everything else behind the wheel
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Originally Posted by bwilson4web
...Hypermiler has become to efficient driving what 'Hells Angles' are to motorcycling, the wrong image....
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Remember you are including
laurie and Hot Georgia to name a couple with that broad brush.
As Jack Webb said on Dragnet - "Just the facts, please."
Lots of articles since Mother Jones have been published on hypermiling since (around a couple of dozen including
this one), most of them espousing many of the techniques you also advocate....there has been to coin a phrase you used - "swift boat tatics". I have done a couple of interviews that have been printed - the legal department will insert after the editor's story in close drafting, etc at the end to enhance this misperception this is often done. I know this has been done to a couple of other people that have been interviewed as well, including
laurie.