Need some help on a paper, How do you improve your gas mileage? Options

[CelicaChick95]

I am writting a paper for my speech class and its on how to improve your gas mileage.If you have anything that is different that I could quote you on I would really love it. Gotta love finals. Thanks

[jayi12-15psi]

There was an article I was reading a while back and it listed a few interesting ways to save on your gas milage, I wish I could remember where it was so I could help you out. A couple of ways would be of course to accellerate slower. They were doing these test on a late model bmw and from simple accelerating at a reasonable pace instead of gunning it everytime, they received 2 mpg more over their baseline mpg over a course of average driving. It's also a good idea to shift so early that your engine drops to around 1000 rpms, someone might be able to help you more with the mechanical reasoning behind this, but your engine usually makes alot less power at lower rpms and less power means less consumption. Also, it's dangerous, but improving aerodynamics always helps in efficiency. (I don't recommend this) You could drive down the highway directly behind a semi-truck(drafting), the air will blow over the truck and you will receive less wind resistance. Like I said, I don' recommend this, but you might be able to avoid some wind resistance by staying a reasonable distance behind a truck. There's also the fact that the more weight you're carrying, the more effort your engine has to exert, try unloading your trunk. Taking excess weight out of your trunk or bed of your truck could help, think about all the guys that place 300 lbs of sand in the back of their truck to get traction in the snow and leave the sand after the snow is gone. If you're desparate, you could also drive with alot less gas in your tank if you're only doing city driving. The additional reduction in weight could help you out if you're accellerating with only a quarter of a tank of gas. You can also go on a diet, think about the fat people that are 200 lbs overweight that are driving around, their cars are suffering from carrying around that extra weight.