your car is almost empty on gas, your driving around like crazy looking for a gas station, what is best, to drive slow to save up the most you can or drive fast to look for a gas station and reach it quicker? you loose more driving fast or its the same wether driving slow or going fast?
2006-07-16 08:40:45 · 19 answers · asked by sueet2b 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
if you go fast you may loose all your gas very soon , if you go slow even it may consume your gas , you have to drive your car on 2nd gear it is ultimate for driving when there is shortage of gas , you should not raise the RPM you just drive as smooth as possible it will be cool , even tho if you loose your full gas that is your mistake you have to check your gas limit before your leave your place weather it is OK to drive in a way to reach your destination
2006-07-16 08:48:38 · answer #1 · answered by Maximus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed limit on the highway in front of our farm is 65mph. When there is traffic on it (major empoyer 40 miles down the road from us) we drive 65mph. Safer to drive the speed limit, than get passed on this two lane highway. Our Interstate speed limit is 75 mph. I personally rarely leave the farm. Usually no more than once a week, some times as little as once a month. Hubby on the other hand has to drive to his job (he works on commercial wind turbines). Whenever he has been able to he carpooled with a friend who lived nearby and worked up there for a while. The friend has now moved and works at a wind turbine site 4 hours away. So hubby discovered if he drove the back roads, which are 55 mph, the milage in the Jeep went from just under 15 mpg, to just over 20 mpg. Hubby has ordered some parts, so he can boost the millage some-more. The snow will be melting soon, and then he will drive my Merc Sable, which gets 36mpg on the fhighway. He will be testing it out on the back roads at 55 mph, to see what kind of millage it gets. We'll be happy when we can switch to farming full time, and raise almost all the fuel we need. We raise the fuel (rapeseed) for our trucks and tractors right now, but cannot afford to pay the whopping taxes to also use the fuel off farm. ~Garnet Homesteading/Farming over 20 years
2016-03-27 07:54:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Driving fast uses more gas, but stopping for a red light and having to accelerate again uses even more.
"The faster you drive, the more gas you use, the more money you spend. Each 5 mph over 60 is equivalent to paying an extra 10 cents per gallon for gas."
2006-07-19 20:53:00 · answer #3 · answered by Beek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
55 mph is the optimal gas efficiency speed. Why do you think that's what is posted on the freeway? This is the fastest you can go for the best fuel conservation. You can also save gas by your air conditioner, either turning it off and rolling down the windows (depending where you live that could be quite miserable) or if your car has this function change it from pulling in outside air to reusing the air that is already inside.
2006-07-16 08:47:08 · answer #4 · answered by kaliedoscope_eyes86 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slow, because if you drive fast you are changing gears. The reason the speed limit was 55 a long time ago was because it saved gas during that gas crisis.
2006-07-16 08:45:08 · answer #5 · answered by Karen L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's the same...of course you'd use more gas driving fast...but, from my POV, i'd say that driving slow and taking easy turns on an empty tank would be the WTG because sudden forward momentum and increased G forces during turning can make the fuel slosh around and starve the fuel pump....car stops running
2006-07-16 08:44:50 · answer #6 · answered by Ryan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that if you are on empty, it does not matter much. For as long as your engine is running you are using gas so if you go slower you are probably getting less MPG. The only time that you burn more gas is through hard quick acceleration.
2006-07-16 08:45:11 · answer #7 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
every vehicle has a speed at which the gas loses are at the optimal point - if you will go faster or slower you will be just wasting gas, so i would suggest for you to read the drivers manual for your vehicle to find out at which speed does you car had the best economy.
2006-07-16 08:47:16 · answer #8 · answered by Meaty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yah know, that's debateable. My 94 escort 1.9 got 40mpg when I drove 85+. At 65 it would get 32mpg. That's the only car I have owned that did better at high speeds than it did at low. Otherwise, vehicles tend to have "ideal speeds" which are speeds that offer greatest efficiency.
2006-07-16 09:41:42 · answer #9 · answered by jeff s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The faster you go, the more slowing down and picking up speed you do, which makes a car burn more fuel.
2006-07-16 09:19:23 · answer #10 · answered by kayef57 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋