driving Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:04:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Young People Drive Less Than Parents Did, Study https://www.greenoptimistic.com/young-people-drive-less-study-20130518/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/young-people-drive-less-study-20130518/#respond Sat, 18 May 2013 15:03:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=37407 A recent study conducted by the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) shows that young people these days don’t enjoy driving as much as their parents did. The “driving boom,” as they call it, affected Baby Boomers (now 50 to 60 years old). The total number of miles driven has been the same, but the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/young-people-drive-less-study-20130518/feed/ 0 37407 10+1 Tips to Driving a Diesel Car Economically https://www.greenoptimistic.com/101-tips-to-driving-a-diesel-car-economically-20080414/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/101-tips-to-driving-a-diesel-car-economically-20080414/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:39:52 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=278 1. First of all, remove the aggressive tendency from your driving habits. I admit I myself like to be aggressive sometimes, it gives me chills, diesel cars have a lot of torque at low rpm, but from what I experienced that go fast-full stop-go-fast attitude costs me about 2 liters more per hundred kilometers. Sometimes […]

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