How does the way I drive impact fuel efficiency?

How does the way I drive impact fuel efficiency?

Terry Tamminen (Author & Environmental Policy Advisor) gives expert video advice on: Why is fuel efficiency important to the environment?; How does the weight of my car affect fuel efficiency? and more...

You can improve your vehicle mileage, your fuel efficiency, by 10 or 15 percent just by the way you drive. First of all, you can do this by avoiding jackrabbit starts; when you're at the stop light and it turns green, instead of just slamming on the gas and jumping away like a jackrabbit you slowly accelerate into full highway speed. You can also improve your fuel efficiency if you drive the speed limit when you're on the freeway. A lot of people, when it says 55 or 60, they want to go 10 or 15 miles above the speed limit in a hurry; that 10 or 15 miles an hour will cost you 10 or 15 percent of your gas mileage. So, just by following the speed limit you can get 10 or 15 percent more miles out of the gasoline that you consume.