Hypermiling your fuel economy — The greenest extreme sport for cars {Autoblog Green}

Jul 22nd 2007 11:22AM I understand and appreciate everyone's effort in reducing the waste of fuel to power their vehicles, as I too try to save when I can, as an owner operator of a semi I try to use biodiesel fuel when available and cut my speed back for the increase in mpg. The one very significant problem I have noticed is that far to many people have taken up this "hypermiling" craze in the wrong manner. Shutting the engine off and coasting around 25mph corners at 50mph, "drafting" 18 wheelers, these are the kind of actions that will get people KILLED.... plain and simple. I hope that those of you out there on this site that are looking to gain a few MPG don't follow these types of practices.