How to Drive Less
The price of gas has effected everyone’s lives. It makes the cost of everything higher than it the original price tag because you have to take into account the cost of the gas needed to get their. Even when gas prices go down, we’re all just waiting for them to go back up again.
Take care of your car and you can begin to save on gas. Check the oil frequently and change it whenever necessary, as well as the air filters. Make sure the tires are always properly inflated. Drive gently so that you don’t place any extra unnecessary ware on the engine, breaks, etc. Drive efficiently by not speeding, revving the engine, accelerating quickly, etc.
The best way to save gas is the stop driving, hands down. Don’t drive, and you won’t spend a penny on gas. This, of course, is unreasonable for anyone who has to get anywhere such as work or school that is more than a couple miles away. You simply have to drive sometimes. In order to use this technique the most effectively for you, you should try to reduce driving as much as possible. Try some of the following ways to save trips.
Condense your trips. If you go to the supermarket more than once a week, you are taking many unnecessary trips. You could probably even bring it down to once or twice a month if you buy in bulk and freeze food.
Let’s say you’re grocery store is only 4 miles from your house. Taking 3 trips a week will add up to about 24 miles a week. If you get 24 miles per gallon in your car and you pay $3 for gas, if you drive to the store just twice a month, you’ll save about $6 a month, or $72 a year. Shop just once a month and you can save $9 a month or $108 a year.
You can also condense your trips to the mall and other outings. Do you really need to go buy clothes every weekend, or every month for that matter? If you take a trip to the mall every weekend and it’s 30 miles round trip, that could be another gallon and a half a weekend or 6 gallons a month. Cut that down to one trip every other month and you save 5 gallons a month. At $3.50 a gallon that’s another $210 a year. So far we are saving up to $420 a year.
Another great tip is to carpool. Do you work with someone that lives nearby? Let’s say you have a 40 mile round-trip commute and you carpool with someone, so you only travel 100 miles per week instead of 200 miles. At about 20 miles per gallon and $3.50 per gallon, you save $840 a year. Add this to the previous $420 and you are saving $1,260 a year.
Finally, cut back on fun far away from home. Instead of going out to eat every week, cook your own food at home. Rent movies instead of going to the cinema, and invite your friends over instead of finding a far place to meet someone else. With all these tips and more of your own creativity, you could be saving thousands of dollars a year. Invest that money, and you could be looking at a nice nest egg just on what you are saving on gas.
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