The arterial semi-major street nearest my house has a traffic count of 30,000 vehicles per day 7 day average for this mile section. This number is approximately 4 years old, as are the next figures used. The US national fleet fuel consumption average was 24 mile per gallon for passenger car, 17 mpg for light trucks. In these 4 years the traffic has increased, and the fleet mpg has improved, but I will use these numbers, and to be charitable, after all this is junk science, will use the 24 mpg only. Additionally, about 1/2 of the vehicles are stopped at the red light, one of the two at either end of this one mile stretch, lets assume on average those cars stand 2 minutes at idle, For new cars 1/4 gallon per hour use is normal at idle. Today my fuel per gallon is $3.40.
The results ignoring pollution and mashed kitties:
1,250 gallon at $4,250 each day for one mile.
Plus the idle time going nowhere at the lights gives you,
501,875 gallons at $1,706,375 per year just for this one flippen mile.
All that cash electrically bounced in a microsecond to Plutocrats and Dictators who by the way think it’s funny as hell that you pay taxes. This cash mined from your local economy, it will not come back!
Lesson: If you live in a city that has public transport use it, and save yourself up to $8,000 a year, if not, walk or bike, still not possible, air up your tires and learn hypermiler driving tricks, they will drive your kids stark raving mad while you reduce your money losses to oily dickheads that throw out food better than your family eats.
http://ecomodder.com/forum/EM-hypermiling-driving-tips-ecodriving.php
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