[Aaron Cake]

I use the full-throttle/press-clutch-and-coast to the red light method.

This method makes no sense to me. Well, the full throttle part anyway. Coasting is great, as is using the regen to slow instead of the friction brakes.

I seem to get mileage on part with the "mileage record holders" and I certainly don't accellerate full throttle as suggested on this site. If you get up to speed faster, you use more energy, period. That energy comes from the gas engine. So you use more gas. If you accellerate at a normal pace, you use a faction of the energy.