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As far as cruise controls go, mine has a button labeled Coast which as far as I can tell, acts like you’ve taken your foot off the accelerator. It’s useful for going down steep hills while in cruise control.
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Only when you’re going down a hill the cruise control ‘takes its foot off the gas’ anyway. In my Cherokee, going downhill with the cruise control on, the econometer reads 99.9 mpg.
[QUOTE=dtilque]
There something wrong with your figures above. At 65 mph/21 mpg, you will use 14+ gallons to go 300 miles and it will cost you $44 and change.
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Dammit! :smack: Thank you for the correction. I accidentally used 31 mpg instead of 21 and did not check to see if the answer made sense. (Which it did not. Bad, bad engineer!) I evidently need a 24 hour limit on the edit function.
I think I also need to head off to one of the recent “What makes you feel old” threads. For me, the brain doesn’t work like it used to. (Is 48 too young to claim “senior moments”?)
Thanks again dtilque for the correction, and also for the suggestion of how to use the coast button.