Driving economically

[podwin]

I'm amazed what I achieved this morning, I was low on fuel (15 miles remaining) and so I drove like a nun.

I improved the average mpg for the morning commute from the usual 44ish mpg to 60mpg!

I thought I'd get up to 50, but 60! I'm amazed.

So I can believe the real small cars with manual gearboxes can get 70+ mpg.

If I drove like that all the time, I'd get 192 miles extra out of a tank, for nothing, for free.

Then it got me thinking that everyone moans about the price of fuel, but I haven't noticed (including myself) anyone actually driving a little slower to save the pennies.

Strange, how we are not prepared to do this. That's about a 40% increase in fuel economy just by adopting a gentle driving style, and I wasn't even late.

Has anyone else been amazed what a difference driving style can make?

Having said all this, when I had a Jeep, it did 18mpg however I drove it, so maybe it's a diesel thing.

[podwin]

I was accelerating so slowly I thought I'd piss the driver off behind, but I wasn't tail-gated.

I know I won't drive like that again though, so now I'm annoyed at myself.