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Driving Smarter. To Go Farther for Less By Brad Byers U.S. Department of Energy Perhaps you are one of the estimated eight million Americans who have seen the TV film, "Running on Empty." This half-hour movie showed a new kind of road rally, spon­ sored by the Sports Car Club of America and the Department of Energy. In these rallies, drivers com­ peted with one another to im­ prove gas mileage. Eight per­ cent of the drivers managed to get better mileage than the EPA rating for their cars. /They did it by driving smarter. And what they did, you can do, too. First, and most important, drive at or below the 55 miles- per-hour speed limit. Most cars get the best gas mileage between 35 and 45 miles per hour. Miles-per-gallon decrease drastically below 30 and above 50. Driving at 55 uses 20 per­ cent less gas, in the average car, than driving at'70. And that means 20 percent cheaper, too. Don't Idle Around But maybe you already observe the speed limits, or most of your driving is in town. You can still drive smarter, and save. ,, First, avoid idling. Tests con­ ducted for the Department of i..Energy showed that, on the average, one minute of idling uses as much gas as one minute of driving at 30 miles-per-hour. In other words, you use enough gas to drive half a mile during every minute that you idle. Also, a minute of idling uses twice as much gas as restarting the engine. So, as a rule of thumb, if you're likely to be waiting in line for more than half a minute, turn off the ignition. The half-minute rule applies to warm-up time, too. True, your car gets fewer mpgs when the engine is cold, but it gets zero mpgs when idling. After the 30-second start-up idle, drive under 35 miles-per-hour for the first couple of minutes and your car will warm up more efficiently than when idling. Don't Spill the Milk One of the gas-saving sur­ prises for careful drivers is the "move on out" rule. Contrary to popular belief, slow acceleration actually wastes gas. "Brisk but smooth" is the best acceleration technique. The quicker your car shifts out of low gear, the more gas you save. But don't employ jack-rabbit starts. They waste the most! Your car uses the least gas when it is moving at a steady speed. Imagine that you have a bowl of milk sitting on the dashboard, and try not to spill it. That means a steady foot on the accelerator and slowing down without using the brakes. Braking wastes the momentum gained from gas that you've already burned; and ac­ celerating after braking uses more gas than a steady speed would have used. So: • anticipate traffic flow and traffic lights 10 to 12 seconds ahead (about a block in town and a quarter mile on the highway). • keep two or three seconds of space between you and the car ahead of you. • by decelerating well in ad­ vance, try to avoid coming to a stop light when it is red. Starting from a dead stop uses a lot more gas. Take the Load Off An overweight car, like an overweight jogger, burns up fuel at a faster rate. There's not much you can do to reduce the weight of your present vehicle, but you can avoid carrying around any extra baggage. For example, if you leave those two 50-pound bags of fertilizer in the trunk for a week before apply­ ing them to the lawn, you cheat yourself out of four-tenths of a mile extra you could have traveled on each gallon of gas. Another surprise awaits those with air conditioned cars. Most of the fuel penalty for air condi­ tioning comes from just carry­ ing that extra weight aroUnd, and from running the unit in city traffic. Some tests have in­ dicated that keeping the win­ dows closed and turning on the air conditioning actually uses less gas at highway speeds, as opposed to driving with the win­ dows open. Open windows in­ crease air resistance. In the next article, we'll tell you a high-pressure way to in­ crease your miles-per-gallon three to six percent at no cost, with no inconvenience, and with practically no effort. (The savings figures used in these articles are averages. In many cases, the test results showed a wide range above and below average for in­ dividual cars.) tAntrican Viewpoints Mon art wlM In pro­ portion, not to tholr ox- porlonco, but to tholr ca­ pacity for axporlonca. Qaorga Barnard Shaw ^"CLIPPERS" HAIRSTYLING SALON SPECIALIZING IN FEAIHERCUTS & PERMS HOURS: TUES,WED,FRI,9to4. SAT, OH 1 CLOSED SUN, MON, & THURS. PHONE 344-5930 5101 W Elm McHonry OWNER... DEBBY BERG ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF HER NEW SHOP SENIOR CITIZEN RATES TUES. WED. & FRI. SAME BUILDING AS H & R BLOCK in I'll < oo| > staff psychologist .news Irom the Family Service and Menui Health Clinic ot McHenif County- Fight the feelings and insist on a facade of unreasonable "strength" will certainly have a much more difficult time. Allowing family and friends to help is not a weakness; it is utilizing one of the most powerful of human strengths. N PAGE 15 - PLAIN DEALER - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2*. IBM Health the information entered on (Editor's note: This is another in a series of especially written articles for McHenry county readers. Joseph Cools is a psychologist on the Family Service and Community Mental Health Center staff. This article is "Coping - Death of a Spouse".) • There is, perhaps, no one single event in a person's life that is more difficult to cope with than the death of a spouse. No matter how old, or how protracted the illness, the death of a spouse leaves a vacant loneliness that no other experience can approach. Everyone who has lost a spouse has had the ex­ perience of thinking, "I must tell my husband about...," then realizes again that she will never tell her husband; or waking up in the middle of the night to put his arm on his wife and finding empty bedsheets. Theses are the times when the person relives again the painful surprise of being alone. Through the grief process, the person struggles with overwhelming sadness, anger, hopelessness, and panic, until gradually time and human nature dulls the pain and life begins to be rebuilt and reshaped. Gradually, old memories, like old photographs, are put away, not forever, but to be glanced at from time to time with , fondness, not hopelessness. It is within the capacity of every human being to survive the death of a spouse and to continue a meaningful, rich life. The death of any person affects not only the surviving spouse, but also other family friends and the community. To help deal with the loss, everyone who has been touched by the death can help each other by talking about their feelings and sharing their pain. The process of sharing feelings with others not only helps in dealing with the grief process, but also bands family and friends closer both for the present and for the future. 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