MTSU professor drives cross-country on 2.15 gallons of purchased gas

Friday, March 9, 2012

The long wait has ended. MTSU Professor Cliff Ricketts has achieved a career goal of driving coast-to-coast on less than 10 gallons of gasoline purchased at the pump.

You almost could say he not only accomplished the feat, he obliterated it.

Ricketts and his eight-member support team drove three Toyota hybrid alternative-fuels vehicles approximately 2,582 miles across country, using only about 2.15 gallons of fuel purchased at the gas pump, according to an MTSU news release.

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