FuelFrog Makes It Easy To Keep Track Of How Much You’re Being Bent Over At The Pump

I’ve recently caught the hyper-miler bug. Hyper-milers drive their cars in a way that eeks out crazy high milage, sometimes upwards of 100 miles per gallon with non-hybrid cars. Hyper-milers accelerate slowly, using a feather touch on the gas and try to keep all momentum going- hitting the brakes is a waste of speed and a waste of gas. Drafting on big rigs on the highway can squeeze in a few percentage points of efficiency and the really serious hyber-milers look for places to turn off their engines to coast, which is actually not a smart idea- the power steering and braking in modern cars shut down when you turn it off, dropping into neutral is a slightly less efficient but way more safe technique.

FuelFrog is a web app that easily keeps track of your gas mileage- a hyper-milers dream come true, and pretty damn cool for the rest of you too. It’s super simple to use- you just enter in the miles traveled since your last fill up and the amount and price of the gas you got. After a few fillups FuelFrog gives you stats on how much road you’re getting out of your gas in an easy to read web 2.0y graph. I just signed up for my account (as you can see above) so my graph has no data to populate yet.

You can enter the information in via the web or by using Twitter, which would allow you to do it as you are at the station paying. That’s a great feature for those of us who would suck at faithfully entering in the info back at home.

I love seeing stuff like this- great mashups of green, technology, mobile devices, and the internet. Maybe we can work ourselves out of the eco-hole we’ve dug into.

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