fuel consumption meter - how to get more miles per gallon!

4-34 — elektor april 1980 fuel consumption meter fuel consumption meter how to get more miles per gallon! "Enjoy the ride"? Forget it, nowadays. Agreed, you may enjoy the ride; but if you have to pay for the petrol, after- • wards ... you start to calculate in miles per pound. It"s not at all clear how scarce oil really is. Governments, oil companies and "independent investigators" all seem to have different ideas. However, two things are obvious: the price of petrol is not likely to go down — on the contrary, "a pound a gallon" may soon seem ridiculously cheap. Furthermore, economic driving is becoming ever more important, whether to save pennies or to save oil. By making the car itself more efficient and economical (with a good electronic ignition system, for instance), by improving your driving style or simply by driving less. Although we do not wish to underrate the pro- ducts of modern technology in this field, we feel that driving style is perhaps one of the most impor...