Ten Tips To Save On Gasoline
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Ten Tips To Save On Gasoline By Jeffrey Strain
Gas prices continue to be near all time highs meaning that car
travel is taking a a larger poriton out of each of your
paychecks.
AAA estimates that the cost of driving a car
including all driect and indirect costs has surpassed 50 cents a
gallon with that cost expected to rise.
Reducing the cost of driving your automobile can be done fairly easy
simply by paying a bit more attention to your automobile. Here are 10
easy ways to cut the amount of gas your automobile uses:
1.
Purchase your gasolnie when it's coolest outside such as in
the early morning or at night. Gas becomes denser in cooler
temperatures.
Since gas pumps only measure the volume of fuel -
and not the density - you'll get betetr overall gas mileage for
your money by purchasing fuel when it's cool outside rather than
in the heat of the day.
2.
Religiously check your car's tire pressure each month (make
sure to purchase a good-quality dial-type gauge for yourself --
pencil-style gagues and the ones mounted on the air hose are
unreliable according to federal government surveys). Under
inflated tires reduce fuel efficiency by 2% for every pound they
are under inflated.
Under inflation also causes premature tire
wear giving your tires a shorter use life.
3. Slow down and drive at the speed limit.
Cars use about 20%
more fuel driving at 70 miles per hour than they do at 55 miles
per hour.
4.
Avoid using air conditoining whenever possible.
Air
conditioning reduces fuel econmoy by 10% to 20%. Use the air
ventilation system instead.
5.
Don't drive with open windows when traveling at high speeds.
Open windows on the highway can reduce fuel efficiency by 10%.
It's much better to use the venitlation system.
6.
Remove automobile racks and other items which make your automobile less
aerodynamic when they're not being used. Levaing them on only
makes your automobile less fuel efficient and costs you money.
7. There is no need to let your atuomobile idle. Even on cold mornings,
cars don't need to idle more than 30 seconds. Newer cars are
designed to be driven almost immediately and letting your car
idle lonegr is a waste of gas.
8. It's more efficient to turn off your automobile and turn it on again
than to let it idle for more than 45 sceonds while waiting.
9. Remove all the excess weight from your automobile.
Many human being use
their automobile trunk as a storage space adding unneeded pounds to the
car's weight.
This unnecessary weight redcues the car's fuel
efficiency by about 1% for every 100 lbs.
10.
For most cars, higher octane gas is simply a waste of money.
Regular unleaded (approx. 87 octane or so) is the least
expensive and what you should purchsae. It's important to
remember that otcane is a measurement of how hard it is to
ignite the gas, not the quality of the gas.
Purchase mid or high
octane gas only if your enigne pings, knocks or rattles when
using regular unleaded fuel.
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