Tha Drive Thru

Ideally, you want to avoid the Drive Thru at fast food restaurants when you are a HM.  This is mainly due to the long lines that can occur, and the gas-wasting that goes on as you wait in those lines.  Some hypermilers turn their engines off in Drive Thru's as they wait, and ALSO at stop lights, which I will get to in a bit.  This is effective at saving gas, but it will hurt your alternator and many other parts of the car if you are stopping and starting your car 3-5 times per trip.  SOO there are two rules to hypermiling that CAN reduce gas that I have learned.  Bonus is, that these can both be done at any time going through the drive thru.

1.  Go inside.  I know, there's sometimes annoying high schoolers in there, especially for me at my local taco bell.  Just ignore them, get your food, and get out.

2. If you JUST GOTTA DRIVE THRU THE DRIVE THRU, make sure when you move up in line that you don't accelerate.  simply idle by taking your foot off the break, no one's in a rush here.  Doing this, especially if you eat out a few times a week, will reduce your gas usage, and make you a TRUE HYPERMILER!

more to come...../^^\

first steps

Hi!  My name is John and I am a Hypermiler.  What is a Hypermiler you say? Well over the next months to a year, I hope to show you.  You see, a true hypermiler is like starting a diet:  sometimes we go on the diet to achieve certain goals, like losing weight, but we should strive to MAINTAIN a lifestyle of healthy eating.  I hope I can encourage you to MAINTAIN A LIFESTYLE of healthy gas-saving driving.  I mean, cmon, anyone can drive 15 mph in a 25 zone and think they are gonna stop global warming right?  But the most important lessons in hypermiling have taken effect for me over 3 months, then 6 months, then a year.  Depending on my schedule, and how my MMORPGs are doing, I hope to update this with great tips that I have learned from 1 websites about hypermiling and 2 my own personal experiences and those of my close friends.