NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — With oil prices setting records over $90 a barrel and $100 looking ever more likely, experts say there’s a good chance drivers will see $3 gasoline before the end of the year.
“Three dollar gasoline in this market is unavoidable,” said Stephen Schork, publisher of the industry newsletter the Schork Report. “At this rate, we’re going to see $4 a gallon.”
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Here comes $100 oil, and $3 gasoline. Where the hell has this pie hole been looking at gasoline prices, Trenton, NJ? 
Gas Buddy show this to be the least expensive gas in the nation right now. Back when I was trying out the hypermiling techniques, Charleston, SC was usually the cheapest, but it’s seemed to have slipped in the ratings a bit.
And why am I not hypermiling anymore? Well, if you remember from a while back, I had started the hypermiling techniques. Slower driving, drafting behind trucks, stopping the engine before hitting a stop sign or light, all the easiest hypermiling techniques. That all ended when I got the call from Gary. Read the rest of this entry »
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I’ve taken a good look at the way that I’m living, with my hypermiling, and everything, and I have discovered that I have a couple of Carbon Credits extra. I’ll have more after the office move, since I’ll be using less fuel, about half as much as I am using to commute now. I’ll actually be using less, since the afternoon commute is much worse between the current office and the new office.
So, for that, I offer some of my Carbon Credits for sale to you, my gentle reader, at the introductory rate of $24.95, for two tonnes, yes 4,409.24524 pounds of Carbon Emissions. I’m not going to be using them. In fact, in this HOT time, I pledge that I will not use my air conditioner during the day, ensuring that my Carbon Credits remain available. I have a limited number, so get them NOW!
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With the increase of gasoline prices, I saw a story on some portal somewhere a couple of weeks ago about hypermiling. Just by turning off my engine at a red light and making a conscious effort to keep my freeway speed below 70 (which isn’t too hard to do on the Nimitz Freeway during rush hour, I was able to drive a 1994 1.9l Ford Escort almost 460 miles with just over 12.5 gallons of gas, for a mpg of around 37. Usually I go about 375 miles, and get nervous at 400. I do find it odd that the fuel capacity specification is only for 11.9 gallons. Sometime when I’ feeling a bit braver, I’ll run the tank down to zero and push it to a station and fill the tank. Right now, the fuel gauge reads just under a half tank, and 300 miles driven.
In a semi-related story, I took my mother-in-law to the airport last night in her car. She has a fancy fuel-use display built in. I’d love to get my own ScanGaugeII to monitor fuel use, but it won’t work on my old car.
Anyway, I was using it to check various fuel-economy increasing events. You know, like drafting a big rig. I found that in the automatic, it was too difficult to get a good enough reading over a long enough period of time. Also, the meter topped out at 70mpg when coasting. One interesting thing that I found was that going around a curve behind a big rig had no benefit to driving not behind a big rig. One thing I wanted to test was whether there would be any benefit to being the second or third car behind a big rig vs being in the same spot without any other cars between.
Although I didn’t get enough testing time, I can say that driving home in her car after dropping off my mother-in-law was probably one of the happiest times I’ve had in her car.
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