What are you going to do now that gas prices have jumped over $1.50/gal in the last 3 weeks?

Make sure your car is tuned, run your tire pressure a little higher, get rid of all unnecessary weight (tools etc.), easy on the starts, foot off gas pedal when going down hill and let us drill in this country. Don`t get me wrong I am all for alternative fuels, but until they become more available and affordable we can keep the price of oil (gas) down by drilling here.

 
No idea
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I'm supposed to start driving my Celica again since it gets around 40mpg. The overall plan when I bought the WRX was to drive the Celica & have the WRX as the fun weekend type car. Think I've driven the Celica one week total since I bought the WRX lol. Celica is so much better on gas though, but who really wants to drive that when you have the Subaru
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At the moment I am spending 70 days without my car. I will probably stay at school more instead of doing the 220 mile round trip. And Hello from Charleston, SC

 
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...spend less time lumbering around in the 14mpg F-250.
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but compared to my old F-250 with the 460 gas hog, that's a major improvement (the 460 sucked 7-9 mpg)
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Stein said:
Try Massachusetts, and probably 1-2 years hopefully.

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OK Nate, I am not trying to be a dick, but if we can buy algae cultured fuel in 2 years (and seriously hope we can) then I will buy you a full tank of it, that's how much I believe that it will happen. Its a pie in the sky just like water powered cars, and the carburator that lets a car get 75mpg. I still don't see any serious alternative to Gasoline other than electricity available any time within the next 5 years, or 10 for that matter. It will be 20 years before we could seriously hope to roll out any type of meaningful alternative infrastructure. And the ammount of land it takes to culture that much algae is going to be rediculous, but at least it is done with salt water. Now if they could figure out how to make fuel and electricity simultaniously. So long as Big Oil companies exist, they will prevent any serious competition from ever reaching the market place until the Fossil Fuel is gone, then after having bought out every alternative for the past 100 years and storing away all the patents, they will bring them out and market them themselves as if they are saving the world, at a fairly exorbitant price mind you!

 
I've been popping out of gear on downhills and coasting when possible. Not huge, but then again I don't drive a whole lot anyway.

I need to get the snowtires off... that'll get me some MPGs.

 
Mike you are beginning to hyper-mile. I'm always coasting, down hills, up some hills, on the way to stop signs and stop lights. I almost always leave plenty of room in front of me so when others begin to brake I can coast without touching the brakes for a bit and possibly not lose a lot of momentum when they get off the brakes and get into the gas again.

My wife's automatic Legacy -- 29mpg

My Impreza wagon 5 speed---- 28.5

My son's 97 2.2L 5 speed---28.4

still doing the official test on my youngest son's POS. I suspect its not too good due to the extreme piston slap.

 
No more short trips for shopping (one and done for the week these days)...and its nice outside so I don't need to bring the kiddos to Jokers or the YMCA to keep them entertained!

 
been driving the RS like a granny while troubleshooting weird drivability issue (turned out to be a bum plug wire).

so anyway, the approach is to go very very easy on accel, (usually) shift @ 3000, coastin hills, and like Inski sez leave room in traffic to maintain smooth pace even if others don't

have exceeded 30 mpg s number of times, ooooh yeah!

typical RS mileage has been low to mid 20s, so getting over 30 is a big improvement

my F-250 wouldnt get 30 mpg if you dropped it outa an airplane. if you dropped it from altitude of 30 miles, it would burn more than 2 gals by the time it cratered into somebody's back yard.
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I get between 21 and 22.6 mpg on average in my 2009 WRX. If I conciously baby it, I can get 25mpg. On the highway, without slowing down, it can get up to 30mpg, but as soon as you have to brake and accelerate if messes up the average.

 
I need to rebuild my moped and put a 5speed in my car. I'm now saying a 5speed swap will reduce my gas consumption so I can write it off on takes
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