Not So Hyper

So this weekend we were driving to the west side... something we do rather sporadically and usually when lost but during this particular jaunt I noticed that Ben was driving really slowly and cautiously. For the most part the west side is safe and no one's gonna lynch you, unless its pride weekend or you have the vanity license plate "SMPLESALE". So I put up with it for like 5 minutes (ok 5 seconds - let's be realistic) and Ben announced that he was "hypermiling". That's right... hypermiling, the smug term for going slow and getting high gas mileage in a Prius, not dissimilar to Mexican cruise control (coasting in neutral on a hill).

So what was the grand total of our snails pace to the west side... 52.4 miles per gallon, that's right 52.4 miles! With current gas prices that's 8.75 cents per mile... at this point, there is probably something remarkable that I could tie this into, perhaps something about the lifting of the ban on off shore drilling or even Obama's Manhattan project on Energy Technology... but instead I will just say, Ben's a geek and our Prius is saving this great country.