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Assume I'm travelling at 30mph in my car. If I accelerate to 60mph by maintaining 100% throttle am I using the same amount of fuel as if I were to slowly but steadily increase my speed to 60mph by using just 50% throttle?

by /u/T0ma5reddit in /r/askscience

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