Totally insane to drive at 40mph let alone 20mph.
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/article4107764.ece
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/article4107764.ece
Fuel prices: how to save £500 a year (even if it does mean driving at 20mph)
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Not in a 20mph limit..
This puts it into perspective though for anyone that drives fast and complains fuel is costing too much.
The study also found that a driver of the average car travelling 10,000 motorway miles in a year at 80mph would spend £518 more on fuel than if he had driven the same distance at 60mph
That's 41 hours more time in 10,000 miles. Not a lot really. The fuel saving work out to £12.63 per hour.
Is this 'ground-braking motoring news though'?
I think not....You are the weakest link.
This puts it into perspective though for anyone that drives fast and complains fuel is costing too much.
The study also found that a driver of the average car travelling 10,000 motorway miles in a year at 80mph would spend £518 more on fuel than if he had driven the same distance at 60mph
That's 41 hours more time in 10,000 miles. Not a lot really. The fuel saving work out to £12.63 per hour.
Is this 'ground-braking motoring news though'?
I think not....You are the weakest link.
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Sp!ke
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Me neither... moved to general
Dragon, I hope you realise you are creating work for the moderators each time you do this.
If you continue, we have no choice but to assume assume you are doing so deliberately.
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Fair enough in one way. But a bit harsh given that a thread exists in the News section currently that has the simple OP "No news is good news". I am not sure where that should be moved to....
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I see your point about the no news thread and yes, that should be moved to OT. Especially since its purpose seemed to have no effect anyway.
I used to drive to Leeds on the M62 every day and I used to do about 80mph for the first half of the journey and then between 0-20mph for the rest as it was queues from the Brighouse junction.
One day I left the house 5 minutes earlier and didn't bust 60mph for the rest of the journey to see if it made a difference. I reckon I got about 30-40 miles extra out of a tank of gas doing that and due to the standing traffic I didn't get to work any later than I used to, plus being in the "slow lane" was much less stressful and I got to work happier!
Long live lane 1!
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Long live lane 1! :)[/QUOTE said:
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Obviously my subtle attempt to ask for less news was wasted on some. I'll be more direct next time; I have thanked Sp!ke for his intervention.
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On a larger scale bulk container shipping companies have instructed their captains to slow down to save fuel to reduce costs.
This move has been so successful they have found that they are saving so much that they can lease and run additional ships and still make savings with greater tonnages being transported.
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Long live lane 1!
On the M62 at rush-hour it is called (mostly by me) the FAST LANE. It is 90% trucks with the odd clever person all doing a steady 10-15 mph while the other two lanes go from 0-20 every few seconds. At each junction a few people leave, make sure you have a huge gap in front of you so the joiners have somewhere to go and they immediately fight to get into the middle and outer lanes leaving the inside lane in the same position or indeed better than it was before the junctions.
It's the fast lane I tell you!
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On the M62 at rush-hour it is called (mostly by me) the FAST LANE. It is 90% trucks with the odd clever person all doing a steady 10-15 mph while the other two lanes go from 0-20 every few seconds. At each junction a few people leave, make sure you have a huge gap in front of you so the joiners have somewhere to go and they immediately fight to get into the middle and outer lanes leaving the inside lane in the same position or indeed better than it was before the junctions.
It's the fast lane I tell you!
Good call! You don't tend to have people trying to cut in and fill your braking distance either. Apart from at junctions, but then you get the benefit of the clear distance between the off and on ramps to make some ground
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On the M62 at rush-hour it is called (mostly by me) the FAST LANE. It is 90% trucks with the odd clever person all doing a steady 10-15 mph while the other two lanes go from 0-20 every few seconds. At each junction a few people leave, make sure you have a huge gap in front of you so the joiners have somewhere to go and they immediately fight to get into the middle and outer lanes leaving the inside lane in the same position or indeed better than it was before the junctions.
It's the fast lane I tell you!
And I'll back that up - I do that run at least 3 times a week
On the M62 at rush-hour it is called (mostly by me) the FAST LANE. It is 90% trucks with the odd clever person all doing a steady 10-15 mph while the other two lanes go from 0-20 every few seconds. At each junction a few people leave, make sure you have a huge gap in front of you so the joiners have somewhere to go and they immediately fight to get into the middle and outer lanes leaving the inside lane in the same position or indeed better than it was before the junctions.
It's the fast lane I tell you!
Back in the 80's I heard a teacher towing a caravan in Scotland, to drive slowly behind a haulier to benefit from the deflected wind draught. I hate following a haulier because of the dusts and backside fumes. Is this still applicable is open to view. Maybe this Scots is mad. Your comments please.
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Technically it does work and apart from the lack of forward visibility it is fairly safe.
You can really feel it in an un aerodynamic vehicle like a LandRover.
You can really feel it in an un aerodynamic vehicle like a LandRover.
Maybe that why they are inventors.
So it costs me £518 to gain 41 hours of free time - equivalent to say 4 days unpaid leave, which would cost me much more than £518. Bargain - perhaps I'll start driving faster on the way back from work.
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Anyone technical about? I've been trying this 'drive at 40 or less' advice during the fuel shortage (and lots of the roads through the New Forest are 40 mph so easy to do for quite long distances)
For me it does not appear to reduce fuel economy . The reverse in fact. I get more if I go where I can do about 50 or 50-60 mpg.
Bear in mind, mine is diesel and it pulls from very low revs. For example at 80mph it is only doing 2,000 revs (so I am told ). I have the CVT box. Excellent but doesn't fit the advice in this link.
At 1250 revs and early 50's mph we seem to get most economy (using instrument cluster data - I know it is not perfect but mine is very close to tankful to tankful tests; and for the effect of relative speeds should be fine). Any views?
For me it does not appear to reduce fuel economy . The reverse in fact. I get more if I go where I can do about 50 or 50-60 mpg.
Bear in mind, mine is diesel and it pulls from very low revs. For example at 80mph it is only doing 2,000 revs (so I am told
). I have the CVT box. Excellent but doesn't fit the advice in this link.At 1250 revs and early 50's mph we seem to get most economy (using instrument cluster data - I know it is not perfect but mine is very close to tankful to tankful tests; and for the effect of relative speeds should be fine). Any views?
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I was getting 75mpg @ 50mph on the way into work in the wifes D5 today. 
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