Your car’s planet-destroying A/C. No matter how guilty you feel about your carbon footprint, you don’t have to swelter on the highway to the beach. After doing tests at 65 miles per hour, the mileage experts at edmunds.com report that the aerodynamic drag from opening the windows cancels out any fuel savings from turning off the air-conditioner.
That's from this New York Times article. That's interesting. I have in the past wondered about this one. There is, however, something about the breeze on a cool Spring/Fall day that prevents me from keeping my windows up. Sometimes you just have to indulge in the simple pleasures in life.
1 comment:
hehehe... awesome! drew says mythbusters confirmed this too! :) of course your comment about the nice cool breeze... well at 65mph is it quite as pleasant? more like gale force wind? we can all still have our windows down at nice low speeds though. :)
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