Six Easy Tips to Save Gas
With gas prices reaching records highs it is important to learn how to reduce costs by saving fuel. Here are six tips to help save gas and improve your gas mileage.
Avoid aggressive driving (rapid acceleration and braking). It is well known that increasing your vehicle speed suddenly will cause the engine to burn more fuel. If you avoid driving aggressively it can improve gas mileage by 33% on the highway and 5% around town.
If your vehicle is lighter it will require less fuel to operate. If your car is a 100 pounds lighter it could increase gas mileage by up to 2%. If you have a smaller lighter car then it will be more sensitive to any extra weight.
It's pretty obvious that idiling will get you zero miles per gallon. Try a different route to your driving location if you know you tend have to sit and wait for long periods of time on your normal driving route.
You'll be surprised at how efficient your vehicle will burn gas with a clean air filter. Make sure to regularly check your air filter, maybe every 3000 miles.
Your car's engine slows down when you use overdrive gearing. This saves gas and will majorly improve gas mileage, especially on longer trips.
Try not to make as many trips to the store, or wherever, per week. Of course, this will take some planning ahead, which most people are not used to doing. But, it could mean saving an extra $32 dollars per month ($370 annually). Let's say you get 18 miles per gallon and you eliminate 40 miles of driving per week. If gas is $3.50 per gallon, that would translate into $31 saving per month. Take a look.
40 x 4 weeks in a month = 160, 160 / 18 miles per gallon = 8.9, 8.9 x $3.5 per gallon = $31.11
If you are interested in saving several hundreds of dollars per month by reducing your fuel costs, then you'll want to read about this guy in California that runs his car on water. He calls it "Water4Gas."
