{"id":2048,"date":"2006-08-07T12:46:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T16:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/fuelsaving_tips\/"},"modified":"2006-08-07T12:46:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T16:46:35","slug":"fuelsaving_tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/fuelsaving_tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel-Saving Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

A news site has 20 fuel-saving tips<\/a>. It includes the standard ones, but also a few you don’t hear as frequently:
\n–Finding your vehicles “sweet spot.” I realize that vehicles have different efficient speed “sweet spots,” but I didn’t realize it might be as fast as 85 m.p. h. I have no idea what it is for my car, because I typically mix in significant city driving on a typical tank. Maybe I should be driving faster.
\n–Parking in the shade to avoid gasoline evaporation.
\n–Wait to get gas until the tank is almost empty–less weight to haul around.
\n–Buy gas on Wednesdays: statistically the cheapest day of the week.
\nI was amused by the “Don’t stop” tip. It’s a good one, one that I often do. But I was kind of surprised by the way they present it; it’s as if they are encouraging people to roll through stop signs.
\nUPDATE: The aforementioned rolling stop slide make Keith Olbermann’s Worse Person of the World!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A news site has 20 fuel-saving tips. It includes the standard ones, but also a few you don’t hear as frequently: –Finding your vehicles “sweet spot.” I realize that vehicles have different efficient speed “sweet spots,” but I didn’t realize it might be as fast as 85 m.p. h. I have no idea what it […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}