I understand the safety issue and the fact there may be negligible benefits, but why does a car use more gas in neutral than in gear? At least with a manual transmission, the load on the engine should the same or less when the car is coasting/going downhil1 in neutral than when coasting/going downhill in gear. In either case, some gas would needed to keep the engine running.
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