Prius owner gets 79 mpg

With gas prices still rising, it was surprising to see in an article in the San Jose Mercury news about a Prius owner who goes to extreme measures to get the most mileage out of his car. The article talks about how the owner of the gasoline-electric hybrid Prius puts special tires, tapes plastic and cardboard over the engine, blocks the the grill with foam rubber, drives without shoes and hacks into the his car's computer to maximize distance with minimum gasoline. Another surprise in the story is that there's another person who has gotten her car to get 116 mpg. According to the article the Prius already gets 55 mile to the gallon. Reading these kind of stories makes a person know that there's alternatives to these high prices of gasoline.