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I will continue to go 62 on the 65 MPH speed limit highway, because we all stop at the same red light anyway. Everytime I see someone pass me at 5-10 or more MPH over the speed limit, I just laugh



And I just laugh whenever someone else uses that old tired line "Why speed if you're just gonna hurry up and wait at the same light I am?"

Well, yes, that's a possibility. It's also just as likely that the person speeding will make it through the light and you won't, putting him even further ahead. But he might get caught at the next one, and you won't. Or his speed might make him get through all of them and you'll stop at every one of them.

It's not a reason to speed. But "because we're all gonna get caught at the same light" isn't either.




As for Kremit's mileage, I will say this -- In the entire time I owned my '97 Contour (ATX Zetec just like Kremit's) I got my best mileage driving in excess of 80mph. Time in and time out I could reproduce it. The best tank I ever had was just over 493 miles on a tank (and it wasn't quite dry, I fit just over 14 gallons in it), driving through empty South Texas with the AirCon on and going between 80 and 95mph the entire tank. Why, I haven't the foggiest idea. I've made the same run in the same weather at closer to 70 (Spring Break so lots of cops) and didn't get anywhere close to that, more ike 29mpg. But on several trips I got well over 33mpg, and of course that one record tank. The weather is almost always the same in South Texas and I always get my gas at the same stations.

It doesn't exactly make any sense, but it's the way it worked out. Multiple times, so it wasn't some fluke.

I have noticed a very similar, but not so extreme, trend in my Mazda6s. When driving South, I will often drive only about 70mph (usually have someone in the car, so I don't drive so fast) and get abour 25mpg. When driving West out to New Mexico on business, I drive much faster as I'm alone and there's few cops (few anything really), usually around 80-85, and get about 28mpg. Done those trips many times, and the results are very consistent.

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