{"id":451,"date":"2008-01-19T01:52:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T01:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/how-to-double-triple-your-gas-mileage\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:52","slug":"how-to-double-triple-your-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/how-to-double-triple-your-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"How to double- triple your gas mileage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/gass-nozzle.jpg\">I am not going to help you change your miles per gallon.  Sorry.  <\/p>\n<p>I am going to add a new concept to the whole miles per gallon.  Person Miles Per Gallon (PMPG).  Let me give you a simple example of PMPG:  You drive to work in a car that gets 15 mpg.  You drive alone.  15 PMPG.  Very simple.  Now let&#8217;s say you drive with someone else to the same job from the same neighborhood, so there is no other extra driving. 2 X 15 mpg = 30 PMPG.  <\/p>\n<p>Another complicated example- every Friday I drive my 16 year old to High School. She is in a special program at a farther high school and the bus ride is about 2 hours one way. We carpool with 4 other girls.  So 5 x 15 mpg is 75 PMPG. Of course there is some driving out of the way and I have to drive from work alone from there, so maybe I get 60 PMPG in total. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is some fake math you&#8217;re doing!&#8221; I can hear you screaming at this simple blog. But think about it some more. If there was no carpool, I would have to drive her everyday in the morning. I would spend 5 times more on gas for the same benefit I get now by carpooling.  <\/p>\n<p>This same PMPG can also be applied to taking the bus.  Let&#8217;s say I am going to take the bus to work.  And it is a 5 mile drive.  At 15 mpg and gas at $3 per gallon, it costs me $2 every day to drive to work and home.  If the bus costs $1.50 each way, and $3.00 every day I have a PMPG of 10 mpg.  That is not better.  Now if I were a great mathematician (and tonight I am not), I would add the cost of parking at $5 and get some monstrously better vPMPG (a virtual PMPG) because I would then be saving money.  I am going to guess that it is something like 45 vPMPG.  But it is math I cannot figure out.  I even tried to use a spreadsheet and make everything a small set of equations that I could then aggregate into something really amazing.<\/p>\n<p>So carpool.  Find the local website that will help you with that.  Our local one is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridefinders.com\/FrontEnd\/HTML\/index.asp\">ridefinders.com<\/a>. Your community might have a website or just a number to call.  Use it.  Think of all the gas and cash you will be saving.  <\/p>\n<p>And somebody please figure out the vPMPG for me and supply me with a formula to use.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not going to help you change your miles per gallon. Sorry. I am going to add a new concept to the whole miles per gallon. Person Miles Per Gallon (PMPG). Let me give you a simple example of PMPG: You drive to work in a car that gets 15 mpg. You drive alone. 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