15 Ways To Save Gas

You can save gas immediately and save lots of money with these 15 tips...

1) Gas Cards: Some gas credit cards offer a 10% to 15% discount on your gas when you use their card. If gas is $3.25 per gallon, thats a savings of $0.33 to $0.49 per gallon of gas.

2) Crazy Driving: Avoid speeding, rapid acceleration and braking. You can save money on gas because this lowers your cars gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds and 5 percent around town.

3) Freeway Driving: According to the Department Of Energy, each 5 miles per hour you drive over 60 is costing you $0.25 per gallon of gas.

4) Remove Excess Weight: Take all that heavy junk out of your car that you never use to save gas. An extra 100 pounds can reduce your MPG by 2%.

5) Avoid Idling: Save on gas prices by avoiding idling whenever possible. Sitting there idling gets you a whopping ZERO miles per gallon of gas!

6) Tune-Up: Your car will run better and use less fuel if its been tuned up.

7) Air Filter: Replacing a clogged air filter will improve your gas mileage by 10%.

8) Tire Pressure: Under-inflated tires can lower your gas mileage by 0.4% per one pound drop in your PSI. Maintain the tire pressure shown on your tires. Get a tire pressure gauge and check your tires in the morning before you have driven.

9) Your Fuel: Although its not really one of the ways to save on gas (you will save money on gas though), you don’t need to use higher octane gas unless its specified in your car owners manual.

10) Cruise Control: Using cruise control on the highway will help you to maintain a more consistent speed and will save you gas.

11) Overdrive Gear: If your car has an overdrive gear, then use it whenever possible. Lowering your cars rpm’s will use less fuel and save money on gas.

12) Oil: Using the recommended grade of motor oil is one of the ways to save gas by increasing gas mileage by 1% to 2%.

13) Commuting: Try to change your work schedule so you’re driving in off-peak traffic. If you own two cars and one gets higher MPG, then use that one to drive to work with. Take public transportation to work. Ride your bike. See if you can telecommute, even if its only a day or two per week. That will really save money on gas.

14) Get A More Fuel Efficient Car: If you drive 15,000 miles per year and gas is $3.25 per gallon, the difference between a car that gets 20 MPG and one that gets 30 MPG will save money on gas prices to the tune of $813.00 per year!

15) Gas Cap: Make sure you have a gas cap...and one that fits properly. Sounds obvious, but the DOE says that about 17% of cars don’t have a gas cap. That’s 147 million gallons of gas that is just vaporized each year! Geez, talk about ways to save gas!

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