Now let me get more detailed on these suggestions.

1. Slow down! This will save you soooo much on your mileage that you will be amazed. It doesn't matter what your motivation for using less fuel is, it only matters that we do. Some want to save the earth, some want to save money and yet others just want to use less fuel and cheat the oil companies out of revenue. All of these and many more a very good motivation but this is something we can all do and it costs nothing! Why are we still driving our SUV's and Pickups so hard all the time. We are just wasting fuel, money and national security!

2. Look ahead and ananticipate. This is another easy thing to do. If you see a light in the distance that is going to turn red, start slowing down let your vehicle coast to the light instead of stopping at the last minute! This is a much safer way to drive. Now I don't mean anticipate the light is going to turn red and speed up here but if you don't have to stop for a red light keep your momentum going. Don't forget that it takes energy to make your automobile accelerate and to make it stop. Braking is just turning the energy you took making your car accelerate into heat in your brakes.

3. Let your speed drop on hills! Try to learn to be gentle on the accelerato groing uphill. Use only what energy you need to use. Let your speed come down a little on the hills and regain the speed going down the other side. This way you will learn how much your car needs going uphill, use only what energy you need to keep from losing too much momentum!

4. Gain speed going downhill! When you reach the top of a hill ease back off the accelerator and gain speed slowly going down the next hill. Use as little acceleration possible to let you gain the speed you want. Remember to anticipate the next hill, you may want some extra speed for that! Ease back off the accelerator as you approach the speed you desire you don't want to gain more speed than you need this will only cost you more fuel!

5. Accelerate slowly! This cannot be stressed enough. Once you car is in motion and gaining speed don't continue to press the acceleratoror to gain speed faster. Allow the speed to come up slowly, only use more gas if you need to. This is another very big saver of gas. Also if you are on a slight incline but there is a decline coming up let the car just hold speed and gain more on the decline!

6. Be courteous cannot stress enough how important this is! If you make others upset you will never get more to convert to your way of thinking and we will not see fuel consumption drop. After all this is the ultimate goal. At the same time don't be bullied into going faster than you wish!

7. Learn to coast! This is a very important concept. When you are off your accelerator you are using the engine to slow down. When you are on the accelerator and gaining speed you are in that acceleration mode. There is a point between the 2 of these modes that you are actually trtrulyoasting. There is no drag slowing you down and there is not engine power speeding you up. This is the point of true coast. You can gain a trtremendous amount speed going downhill using this mode. You can also use this for coasting long distances to a stop sign or light! Learn to use this mode and save big!!!!!