krousdb mentioned in news article
 

Not by name, but here ya go:

https://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll...TO03/608120304

The other thing that they didn't put in was "codfishing"!

codfishing, :), can't wait to do more of that. i might just start driving the car and killing it with the old hand over the tb every time i need to.

Every time I google myself I find something new. :o How often to you guys google yourselves?:p

I was interviewed at Hybridfest and I proofed the story a few weeks ago. I expect to see something new soon.

Time to google myself now :)

Seriously... we need to start getting GasSavers in the news... any ideas?

We could organize an event and publicize it through GS and other forums. We don't have to do something as big as Hybridfest but something more like the Prius Marathon. It would make sense to me to do a non-hybrid to get the point across that you don't need a shiny new hybrid to get good mileage.

How about a 14 YO honda with 400k miles that gets driven by a team of drivers for over 1000 miles on a single tank of gas. I wonder where we could find such a car?

Or we could drive a Firefly for 1600km across Canada on a single tank of gas.

I would volunteer the VX but it is too boring cause I don't have the fancy wheel skirts.:p

It's a pity there's no one in the NH/VT area or we could pimp around next year with this idea. I'm too far from everyone!

However, a civicy marathon thing would be great, possibly a competition of sorts, though small, to spur things along.

Dan, do you know who coined the term "hypermiling"? It showed up in the Toronto Star today (bullet-list of the tips from this week's Washington Post article). I wonder if it's breaking into the public lexicon...

Someone registered hypermiling.com this week too.

It was wayne, wasn't it?

The coiner, or the registering person? (Wayne's name isn't on the registration.)

Also, it doesn't really work for metric countries: hyperkilometering doesn't roll off the tongue, eh? :p

the coiner i believe.

As far as I know it was Wayne. Early in the year Wayne, Tom and I were brainstorming about names and looking them up to see if they were registered. I think the hypermiler.com was registered back then too. I'm pretty sure that we checked that one.

Yeah, hypermiler.com was registered in 2005, Aug 5.

Hypermiling.com was registered last week: 2006, Aug 6.

I Googled myself and was surprised to find 4 that were actually about me. Darn! They're on to me.:p

My wife helped me think of a few things last night.

First project:

1) I will get the car above 50mpg (if it isn't already). I will then contact the city of Salt Lake City and ask for free parking (remember how they give free parking to anyone with over 50mpg?). I will contact the news media as well, and hope that it gets picked up and other newspapers will also write about it.


2) I want to begin planning a trip in my civic. It will be on one tank of gas, kind of like a marathon. The plan is to prove that you can get good gas mileage without breaking the bank (buying a hybrid). I will also contact the newspaper in each major city I go to and ask if they want to interview me/look at the car along the way. This will take a little more planning and more aero modifications before it can be realized, but it would make for a really cool news story.

Those are both really neat ideas.