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So true

Submitted by Andrea Dickson on December 27, 2006 - 10:01.

I always thought that the whole "don't go above 60mph" rule was bollocks, seeing as how you take longer to get places the slower you go, so wouldn't you be spending the same amount of fuel anyway?

Turns out that the gas efficiency curve isn't linear, and I ended up discovering just HOW unlinear it is when I drove over the mountain pass at 30 miles and hour the other day during a snow storm. The whole 150 mile trip usually takes half a tank of gas - this time, it only took a quarter. Insane!

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