{"id":667,"date":"2013-09-07T16:42:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T21:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:31:04","slug":"667","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Going the Extra Mile (on the Same Tank of Gas)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howstuffworks.com\/fuel-efficiency\/fuel-economy\/everyday-driving-tips-to-save-fuel.htm#page=0\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/41\/2008-07-18_Gas_station_ran_out_of_fours.jpg\/400px-2008-07-18_Gas_station_ran_out_of_fours.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a gas price sign.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ildar Sagdejev<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Call it ecodriving, hypermiling or plain old frugality, people today are trying every trick they can think of to wring a few extra miles from a drop of gas. Unfortunately, most fuel-saving tips range from the dubious to the downright dimwitted. Even the ones that work &#8212; such as making only right turns &#8212; veer into the ridiculous. In this Top 5 list, I&#8217;ve separated the classics from the clunkers and saved you the trouble of doing your own Mythbusters episode. Read on to discover&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Everyday Driving Tips to Save Fuel\" target=\"_blank\">Everyday Driving Tips to Save Fuel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it ecodriving, hypermiling or plain old frugality, people today are trying every trick they can think of to wring a few extra miles from a drop of gas. Unfortunately, most fuel-saving tips range from the dubious to the downright dimwitted. Even the ones that work &#8212; such as making only right turns &#8212; veer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=667\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going the Extra Mile (on the Same Tank of Gas)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,94,14,18,74,3,13,30,43],"tags":[81,24,19,16,17,80,687,15,688,364],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-consumer","category-engineering","category-green","category-maintenance","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","category-top-10","category-travel","tag-aerodynamics","tag-behavior","tag-brakes","tag-economics","tag-environment","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-fuel-economy","tag-hybrid","tag-mpg","tag-urban-legend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}