Well, you can certainly waste the fuel *trying*... but the jack-rabbits
just laugh at you. :-)

At 05:14 PM 4/27/2006 -0400, -------------------- wrote:
>"Why is no one talking about avoiding "jack-rabbit" starts???  "
>
>
>            /////////////////////////This is also a big waste of fuel
>but in a vanagon there is no sutch thing!!!!!!!!!!LOL
>
>
>Malcolm Stebbins wrote:
>
>>--- Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>First, clean out the van. Emptying out the cabinets always gives my westie
>>>a nice fuel economy boost.
>>>
>>
>>I also make sure that when I drive during the day, I have only about a
>>1/4 of a tank of water, and
>>then I fill up at that night's camp-ground rather than lug water from one
>>camp-ground to the next.
>>
>>
>>I also find that driving at 90 kph rather than 110/120 kph makes for the
>>biggest decrease in fuel
>>consumption.
>>
>>Why is no one talking about avoiding "jack-rabbit" starts???  :-)    M
>>
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