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Default Graph of car fuel consumption versus speed

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher
saying something like:

You might even find that periods of acceleration and periods of coasting
is in fact a better way to drive.


Christ, no. I was in a car once being driven like that and I couldn't
wait to get out of it - the prat was doing it all along the motorway.
I've also been behind prats doing it - total ****wits.



Oh, its a nightmare to sit in, but it might be fuel efficient, if bloody
dangerous.