05-20-2008, 03:16 PM
[quote DP]I experimented with it driving Up North. At 70mph my trip computer was reading 25-27 mpg. Dropped it to 60mph and got 30-34mpg. Shades of the 55mph speed limit! It may come back!
I made a sililar experiment - ran up I-95 for a hundred miles at the prevailing speed (between 70 and 80, usually 75) and averaged 27 mpg. On the way back, I hugged the right lane and drove 65, trying to be oblivious to the folks screaming by in their Beemers at 85, and averaged 31. Now that I'll be unemployed, and no longer in a hurry, I'd welcome a 55 mph limit again. I didn't care much for it back in the 70's though.