Found another way to save on gas.

[Compaq888]

Originally Posted by CosmicMC

So have you actually measured the change in your tire diameter and its effect on your speedometer since increasing the air pressure, or is this pure speculation and guesswork?

What if you go the speed limit on the highway while nearly all other cars are exceeding it by 15 MPH, and because of some careless driver who's speeding, an accident occurs because she tries to make a lane change to avoid rear-ending you and side-swipes a minivan. How much gas is wasted cleaning up the mess, fixing the vehicles, transporting the injured to a hospital, investigating the accident, paying the insurance claims, etc.? How often do such accidents occur? If it costs you an additional $2.00 in gas for your trip to drive at roughly the same speed as almost everyone else who's speeding, was it worth the $2.00 as insurance against an accident? Most police officers on traffic duty will not issue you a ticket if you're speeding but keeping up with traffic around you, as long as your speed isn't too ridiculously high.

I'll be blunt as possible. If somebody is speeding that is their problem, not mine. If they hit that minivan that is their problem.

I'm going the speed limit for several reasons and they are:
*to save on gas
*Avoid tickets
*the slower you go the faster you can stop. On my car if I were to slam on brakes at any speed it locks up. So if I'm going like the rest of the ape **** on the freeway at 80-85mph my chances of getting into a wreck is higher than going 65mph. My brakes lock up because I don't have ABS and the dealer says it's normal for my car.

And most police officers will issue you a ticket. When i got into a wreck with my last car I was going 8-10mph over the speed limit and the wreck wasn't even my fault. The cops started hassling me that I was speeding and the whole thing was my fault. Some witnesses walked up and said that somebody else was at fault and ran away. So they forgot all about the my fault thing.

Next is the tire diameter thing. I'm not speculating nothing. I checked it by measuring everything.

I'm not like everybody else. I don't speed just so I can make it somewhere faster. If everybody is going to jump off the bridge I'm not going to join them.