Here’s what Wayne Gerdes recently had to say about the hypermiler trick of drafting:
Q: What about drafting – following a large vehicle to reduce wind resistance?
A: Drafting is like NASCAR. Don’t do that on the road or you’ll be dead.
You really can’t get much more explicit than that.
Drafting is the most controversial [...]

Want to look like a hero? Visit one of the ten worst cities on this list and show them your new hypermiling superpowers.  I found this in a story on CNNMoney.

50 Best and worst-ranked cities to weather an oil crisis

Public transit use, telecommuting, bike and walk rates were most heavily weighted

Top 10 Cities
Bottom 10 [...]

NPR aired a story on Morning Edition on June 9th about hypermiling.  I had saved the link to write about it later and when I told my girlfriend about it she said she had heard it that morning on the radio.  More and more people must be asking “What is hypermiling?” if NPR is covering [...]

Reuters had a pretty good article on hypermiling and hypermiling techniques a few weeks ago.  The article also mentions the nearly omnipresent (at least in hypermiling articles) Wayne Gerdes.  The authors claim that drafting is a popular method used by hypermilers but I think this would be widely disputed.
Known as ‘hypermiling,’ the method can double [...]

CNN had a cover story on their website today about Hypermiler Wayne Gerdes and his attempts to get the best gas mileage possible out of his car.
Story Highlights

“Hypermilers” are drivers who push the limits of their cars to conserve fuel
Wayne Gerdes gets 50 miles per gallon in Honda using hypermiling techniques
Gerdes: [...]