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Gas Prices Have You Down? Tips to Save Fuel
Peter Sicoli
JP Global Sales
Interested in tips to save gas?
Gas prices continue to soar out of control. Prices have exceeded over $4.00 a gallon in many parts of the U.S. Filling up at the pumps has turned into a cash draining, impacting our quality of life decisions. What can we do about gas prices as more of our money has been going into the pumps, as we have been digging deeper into our pockets taking money away from everything that we budget for, food, utilities, transportation and education? There is considerable impact across the board, regardless of income level, regardless of where you live and it really makes no difference what you drive. What can we do about gas prices? It is just awful how this is impacting our daily lives and the decisions we are faced with daily.
The top gas saving tips for today's crisis are all simple to do. What can we do about gas prices is follow these simple tips to save gas.
1. Slow Down...nothing fancy, nothing life altering. No jack rabbit starts, no speed racer around town, and leave early enough so that you are not late for an important date, work or school. Try it for a couple of days and you will clearly see the difference. Slow down on the freeway and save gallons in fuel which adds up to alot of money.
2. Check Your Tire Pressure...a simple tire pressure check will add mileage per gallon to your drive. Probably one of the most ignored component on our cars, tire pressure. We all take the tire pressure for granted. Under inflated tires give more resistance to the tires rolling ability on the road. Check your pressure at least twice a month.
3. Check Your Air Filter...that is if you know where it is. So when is the last time you checked your air filter. My guess is not too many folks can answer that question. Naturally a good time to check it is when you have an oil change. But now with the price of gas at an all time high, check it this week. This is part of the tips to save gas.
4. Accelerate With Care...No jack rabbit starts off the line on a green light. Slow it down to a nice casual pace and you will see your gas needle slow down as well. what can we do about gas prices...nothing. But a tip to save gas is to slow down.
5. Keep it Steady...keep a nice steady pace while driving on the freeway, or around town. A constant, steady pace will keep you from burning fuel when have to accelerate. Leave yourself plenty of time to get to work, or to get the kids to school of the soccer game. When we start to rush, we tend to burn more fuel than we need to.
6. Clean Out the Trunk...When is the last time you looked at the trunk? How many things are in the your trunk that is adding weight to your vehicle. This extra weight is adding to your fuel consumption. Immediately upon reading this take out the golf clubs, take out the bag of sand, take out any thing that is adding weight, that is adding to your fuel consumption.
7. ...Get back to nature. On cool days or as frequently as possible, open up the windows and drive with no air conditioning. Automatic fuel savings when not using your air. Again, we are looking to conserve fuel here.
So there you have a few tips to save gas. Now if you start to use these tips to save gas you will not only save fuel, but you will keep a few dollars in your pocket. So what can we do about gas prices? Tip number eight will be to by a diesel car and make your own bio diesel fuel...and you will save thousands.
The author of this article is Peter Sicoli. Peter owns and operates Making Bio Diesel Today Website a successful information marketing company on making biodiesel for your car.
Article submitted Monday, June 23, 2008
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