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Submission + - Fuel efficiency and driving slow (truckandbarter.com)

vile8 writes: With the high gas prices and ongoing gas gouging in my hometown many people are trying to find a reasonable way to save gas. One of the things I've noticed is people driving exceptionally slow, 30mph in 45mph zones etc... so I had to take a quick look and find out if driving slow is helpful in getting better mileage. I know horsepower increases substantially with wind resistance, but with charts like the ones from truckandbarter.com it appears mileage is actually about the same between 27mph and 58mph or so. So I'm curious what all the drivers out there with the cool efficiency computers are getting... of specific interest would be the hemi's with MDS, how do those do with the cylinder shutoff mode at different mph rates?

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