Shifting your way to cheaper gas bills

(Credit: SCI FI Tech)

Many of us are more than willing to do our part to fight global warming, but not everyone is quite ready trade the family gas guzzler for a Prius or a diesel Honda. Yet you can still take a small step toward lessening your environmental guilt with a new shift knob designed to promote fuel efficiency.

The "Gaslock Indy Cater" has an LED indicator that reminds the driver what gear the car is in. Some might think it's about as useful as the "qStart"--the gadget that tells you which side of the road you're supposed to be driving on--but SCI FI Tech says the knob can help cut fuel consumption by 15 percent if its directions are followed religiously.

And the money saved on gas can go toward the fund for the next knob upgrade, the $150,000 Bentley model.

[Ektor3]

cheaper gas bills

$150,000 Bentley/LOLOLOLO

[b_baggins]

The only ones with global warming guilt

Are feel-good self-proclaimed intellectuals who have bought into the
propaganda to make themselves feel superior.

Those of use who have actually studied and understood the science involved
realize that human activity is absolutely irrelevant to climate change, and that
the global warming hysteria is nothing more than an attempt to guilt people into
letting tyrants run their lives.

[dante99208]

Preach it man!

About time someone tells it like it is!

[MasterNewbie]

Um yeah...

I may not know much about meteorology or ecology, but man is definitely playing a part in bringing about this particular global warming stint.

[pmccarty7]

What science says that? Watching FOX News??

What research have you done? Read Michael Crichton's latest pandering novel? Listen, the earth might do its own thing because it is big, bigger than us humans but it still benefits us to take care of what we do. Simpler analogy is maybe our own personal economics. Yes the larger economy does its fluctuations based on larger mechanisms out of our personal control. But does that mean it is ok to spend all of money or resources today, crap in our homes and throw rocks at our neighbor. Of course not, we need to be personally responsible with what we do control by studying what we do and making some simple but difficult choices as we go along. Reading some simple article or book somewhere then using it as a soapbox is not thoughtful.

[qprize]

Knowing how to shift saves the cost of this knob

My old Fiero had that silly shift-up light. Paying attention to it I got a solid
26mpg - better than the EPA 25mpg.

Ignoring it I got 28mpg.

And to Mr. B_Baggins: I'd explain how stupid your comment is, except that it's
so stupid you'd obviously never understand.