Originally Posted by
genec
Uh if you were a driver in the '70's you also learned that jack rabbit starts were bad for your gas mileage and that coasting to a stop was both easy on your mileage and your brakes... we also learned that staying under the speed limit saved gas. We should have learned that 55 MPH was good enough for most cross town highway trips... but few folks got that lesson...
Now where have I heard this before? Oh yeah, the Shell Answer Man. Actually, he made his first appearance in the '60s, but was still going strong in the '70s. It seems odd now that a giant corporation actually ran commercials to help educate Americans.