Throttle Position During Acceleration and its effect on FE

[BEN_EJ8]

I A-B-A tested this, and it looks like my civic has a powerful lust for gasoline when I lower the shift point and give it 40-50% throttle. Ive been driving like an old lady for a while, accelerating so slow I get passed within 5 seconds of the light turning green sometimes, averaging 37 mpg while shifting at 2500. Then, after reading this thread, I tried giving what I think is a little less than half throttle while accelerating from a stop, and shifting at only 2200. Not good at all; for 3 weeks I got 33 mpg on every fillup; atleast its consistent

Now this past week I went back to my old acceleration, and since its been raining every single day for 2 weeks I have been coasting less, but still managed to get my best mpg to date, a whopping 6 mpg more than lowering my shiftpoint/raising throttle open a little. Im mad that its been raining every day; I couldve very easily surpassed my goal, but instead Im stuck less than 1 mpg away with winter weather setting in any day now.