You may have seen him on the road.  He’s the guy almost everyone passes.

But you won’t see him complaining, because he’s also the guy who gets 79 miles to the gallon of gas.

“They think I’m nuts,” Dan Bryant said.

But Bryant prefers to think of himself as frugal.  He’s a hypermiler.

“The basic idea is just to drive like you ride a bike,” Bryant said.

Hypermiling is a new technique to boost your car’s gas mileage by making changes in how you drive.

Changes like constantly moving and coasting to a stop.

“The best efficiency that you get is if your car is really only in two motions: decelerating or accelerating,” Bryant said.

Other tactics? Picking a route to work that’s off the highway or the route with the fewest stop signs.

“I just recently found a new road to go home that gets me out of two stop signs,” he said.

Like most hypermilers, Bryant owns a hybrid car.  But the techniques can apply to regular vehicles and pretty much anyone who’d like to squeeze every possible mile out of a tank of gas.

Bryant figures he saved $700 last year – enough to turn a skeptical wife into a believer.

“As he gets better at hypermiling, we save more and more money. A tank of gas can last him a couple of months,” Shannon Steadman said.

Not only that, but Bryant gets bragging rights.  His latest tank got 79.12 miles per gallon.

“I just missed 80, barely, but maybe next tank. There’s still hope,” he said.