Despite any impression to the contrary you may have gained, I am a\u00c2\u00a0leaden-footed, hyperactive, high-octane fuelled, petrol-headed speedfreak.<\/p>\n
I do, I’ll admit, think that those who dawdle along the roads constitute a risk almost as large to the rest of the road-using community as the 17-25 age group of male motorists do.<\/p>\n
But no, I’m not a speed-junkie.<\/p>\n
My daily commute to Wiltshire takes me down the local mostly-dual-carriageway ‘A’ road for a few miles and then on to the M5 for a while.<\/p>\n
When I leave the M5 I use a couple of other dual-carriageway ‘A’ roads.<\/p>\n
And I don’t hammer it.<\/p>\n
In fact I’m very restrained – I average 60mph for the whole trip but, if I’m honest, I like to keep the speedometer at the 56mph mark; it’s the most fuel-efficient speed for my car.<\/p>\n
So I’ve begun plotting my miles and fuel used to calculate cost per mile and miles per gallon.<\/p>\n
And it’s interesting reading.<\/p>\n
Look, have I ever done anything to give you the impression that I’m not<\/strong> nerdy?<\/em><\/p>\n Anyway,<\/p>\n Over the last three refuels I find I’m averaging 41.55mpg, at a \u00c2\u00a3\/mile cost of \u00c2\u00a30.10p…<\/p>\n Which really isn’t bad at all!<\/p>\n There’s a notice up at work from someone with an LPG-converted Rover for sale…<\/p>\n If I had the dosh he’s asking for it I’d probably snatch his hand off; the prospect of reducing my fuel purchase price down from \u00c2\u00a30.92\/lit to \u00c2\u00a30.41\/lit whilst increasing the range of a gallon beyond 45mpg is very attractive.<\/p>\n But the bottom line here for me is…<\/p>\n Keep driving consistently; don’t hammer the speedo; avoid over-rapid acceleration.<\/p>\n I’m aiming to better the performance indicators I’ve collected so far.<\/p>\n B<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite any impression to the contrary you may have gained, I am a\u00c2\u00a0leaden-footed, hyperactive, high-octane fuelled, petrol-headed speedfreak. I do, I’ll admit, think that those<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}