34 MPG in a Ford Super Duty pickup

[Hoss]

I seem to get stuck behind hyper-milers on the on ramp to the highway. They want to get up to speed a little slower than the rest of us and often create dangerous driving conditions.

I usually don't tag them as hyper-milers.

Usually dumbass drivers.  You'd be surprised how many Tulsa has.

[nathanm]

OK, someone trying to get as much out of the high cost of fuel needs to die in a fire?

They do when they're making the roads dangerous to everybody else. It's one thing to drive incredibly slow when they're out on a rural highway, but in town people will be weaving around them and they'll be making it harder to merge safely.

[Hoss]

They do when they're making the roads dangerous to everybody else. It's one thing to drive incredibly slow when they're out on a rural highway, but in town people will be weaving around them and they'll be making it harder to merge safely.

See my response above.  Hypermilers are those people who try and do this without creating a road-hazard.  Otherwise, they're essentially dumbasses.

[heironymouspasparagus]

So people weaving in and out of traffic, going much faster than the average around them are the dumbasses??

Interesting definition.  Read 1984 lately...as in doublespeak?

[nathanm]

So people weaving in and out of traffic, going much faster than the average around them are the dumbasses??

Interesting definition.  Read 1984 lately...as in doublespeak?

No, the larger contingent of the traffic flow wants to drive faster than the hypothetical hypermiler. That requires they change lanes to get around said hypermiler. The safety problem is not with those who are driving with the normal flow of traffic for that road, but with those who choose to depart from that speed, whether up or down.

Most people choose a speed within 5-10 mph that most other drivers do when faced with particular road conditions. There are outliers, but they are just that, outliers.

[Hoss]

So people weaving in and out of traffic, going much faster than the average around them are the dumbasses??

Interesting definition.  Read 1984 lately...as in doublespeak?

In a word?

YES.  Dumbasses.

Next.

[Mike 01Hawk]

OK, someone trying to get as much out of the high cost of fuel needs to die in a fire?

Yes, because they create a hazard to me.

That and they're the biggest smug mofos on the planet.

A) Wanna save a buck? Telecommute, pack your lunch, eat in, don't have that last smoke, don't order that last drink, etc etc etc.  Tons faster ways of saving a a few bucks w/o endangering your life and those around you.

B) Wanna save the environment? Carpool, mass transit, telecommute, switch to a solar heater, buy some solar panels, buy more efficient windows, insulation, smaller house, compost, blah blah blah.

[Hoss]

Yes, because they create a hazard to me.

That and they're the biggest smug mofos on the planet.

A) Wanna save a buck? Telecommute, pack your lunch, eat in, don't have that last smoke, don't have order that last drink, etc etc etc.  Tons faster ways of saving a a few bucks w/o endangering your life and those around you.

B) Wanna save the environment? Carpool, mass transit, telecommute, switch to a solar heater, buy some solar panels, buy more efficient windows, insulation, smaller house, compost, blah blah blah.

Like I said earlier, I don't consider those hypermilers who create hazards hypermilers.  There are those that actually know how and when to do it.

The whole 'die in a fire' mantra is a bit much.

And I can't believe you referenced 'mass transit' on a Tulsa forum.  Maybe SF or PDX, but not here.  Mass transit is a big oxymoron here.

[Mike 01Hawk]

I just hate Tulsa drivers

A-hole truckers that tail you
Idiots that don't use turn signals
Idiots that run up on you and wait till the last millisecond to switch lanes to pass you like they're trying to catch that extra draft in NASCAR
Idiots that hang in the pass lane
Idiots who don't know how to merge on/off a highway

Ya know, the usual

We do NOT need hyper-milers thrown in that mix.

[sauerkraut]

As fuel pushs up toward $4.00 a gallon and Obama shuts down domestic oil drilling we can expect alot of high fuel prices- My old 1990 F-150 is very poor on fuel mileaga (302 V-8), as for bumpers I put a steel bumper on the front of my F-150 heap and it is very strong I made it out of thick channel steel.

[Red Arrow]

As fuel pushs up toward $4.00 a gallon and Obama shuts down domestic oil drilling we can expect alot of high fuel prices- My old 1990 F-150 is very poor on fuel mileaga (302 V-8), as for bumpers I put a steel bumper on the front of my F-150 heap and it is very strong I made it out of thick channel steel.

So now when you hit something you will damage the whole frame rather than dent a bumper.  Sounds great!

[Hoss]

As fuel pushs up toward $4.00 a gallon and Obama shuts down domestic oil drilling we can expect alot of high fuel prices- My old 1990 F-150 is very poor on fuel mileaga (302 V-8), as for bumpers I put a steel bumper on the front of my F-150 heap and it is very strong I made it out of thick channel steel.

Maybe 4.00 a gallon in Omaha, won't be here, so don't worry about us.

[Conan71]

It would be a riot to find out Sauerkraut has been George Kaiser playing us all along.

[Townsend]

It's Jim Fowler

[nathanm]

It would be a riot to find out Sauerkraut has been George Kaiser playing us all along.

That would be one of the more epic trolls in Internet history.