[SGVLUG] OT: Hybrid efficiency (was:New Linux Lug)

[Dustin Laurence]

A follow-up to my last message.  Tom and Ray
http://www.cartalk.com/content/columns/Archive2/1992/September/04.html
(well, not exactly a peer-reviewed source) think that pulsing the engine
does save fuel.  Not that from the description these must be much
shorter pulses than slowing down to half speed, which is the suggestion
I was responding to.  Short pulses would avoid the problematic lost of
efficiency to wind resistance.

Note the social cost of using up extra cars comment still stands, as
do my other comments.

Dustin