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Adventures in Hypermiling

Adventures in Hypermiling

The Washington Post - Nancy Trejos Hypermiling is changing your driving behavior to coax better gas mileage out of your car. Hypermilers do such things as drive slowly, brake as little as possible and limit their use of the air conditioner to save...

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Gadget Helps Save Gas

Gadget Helps Save Gas

The Vancouver Sun Enhance fuel efficiency: How is it that Linear Logic’s Scan Gauge 2, a car diagnostics computer — a patently unsexy gadget and not even new to boot — resides at the top of the sales charts of online retailer Amazon.com? Well, in light of rising gas...

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8 Geeky Ways to Save Gas

8 Geeky Ways to Save Gas

PC Magazine - Erik Rhey Sure, you could just go out and buy a hybrid. Or trade in your sedan for a Schwinn. But beyond the expensive or impractical solutions, there are ways you can use your tech-savviness to stretch your gas dollar. Since you’re a PC Mag reader, you...

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Put it in hyperdrive

Put it in hyperdrive

MoneySense Magazine As an automotive writer, I get to test drive lots of hot new cars. But once my test drives are over, I slide back behind the wheel of a decidedly unfashionable, gas-sucking minivan. As fuel prices rocketed this past year, I found myself paying...

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10 Quick Fuel Efficiency Tips to Beat the Gas Crunch

How to Monitor Your Fuel Economy in Real Time

Tinkering with new mpg monitoring gadgets (not the “mega-efficient” gas savers he’s debunked time and again), PM’s senior auto editor reminds us of maybe the most obvious—if overlooked—advice when it comes to today’s hell at the pump: Believe you can save gas, and you...

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