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Old 06-26-2007, 09:07 AM
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Default Re: "Hype" and P&G - venting

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 View Post
...Hypermiler has become to efficient driving what 'Hells Angles' are to motorcycling, the wrong image....
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.

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