How to Decrease Driving
Gas prices have seemed to gone up and down, up and done in the past couple years. It can be frustrating because you can never depend on a reasonable price. With gas prices being so high, everything costs more. Your groceries at the supermarket cost more than the receipt says because you have to tack on gas. It just makes everything more expensive.
There are many things you can do to save gas. Taking care of your car is important including checking and changing your oil, changing your air filter, keeping your tires properly inflated, and simply driving so that you aren't damaging your engine, breaks, etc. You can also save on gas by driving more efficiently. Instead of revving the engine, accelerating quickly, or breaking often, we can reduce these gas guzzling practices to conserve gas.
Even though these are great ways to save gas, these won't save nearly as much gas as the BEST way to save gas. The best way to save gas is to stop driving. I know, for most people that's impossible, and I understand that. Unless you live in a place where walking or biking everywhere wouldn't take up a lot of time or be extremely tiring, not driving is impossible. I have to drive almost everyday. What I am asking you to do is to reduce your driving. For every trip you don't take, you will save money. Here are some easy ways to save trips in your car.
First, try taking your ordinary trips less often. If you go food shopping a couple times a week, try going once a week or once every other week. Buy in bulk at a large bulk store and try shopping just once a month. This will save you on food and gas.
Even if your supermarket is only 3 to 6 miles away, if you are taking that trip twice a week, at 2 round-trips to the supermarket a week, that is traveling 12 to 24 miles a week, which for many people would transfer to an extra 4 or 5 gallons a month. If you are paying $3.50 per gallon for gas, you could save $14 to $17.50 a month, or $168 to $210 a year just from cutting back your grocery store trips.
Cut all your trips down wherever you can. Don't go to the mall every weekend, try to just go once a month or less. You'll probably also spend less at the mall if you go less often. Run all your errands on your way to the mall, setting them up so that it is one continuous line. There is no need to drive more places out of the way than necessary.
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, try not to drive so far for entertainment. Go out less and if you do go out, limit it to going close to home. Rent DVDs instead of going out to the movie theater. Stop eating out so often and cook for friends and family at home. Any of these tips can save you money. Put them all together and you could be saving a ton of money on gas every year.
There are many things you can do to save gas. Taking care of your car is important including checking and changing your oil, changing your air filter, keeping your tires properly inflated, and simply driving so that you aren't damaging your engine, breaks, etc. You can also save on gas by driving more efficiently. Instead of revving the engine, accelerating quickly, or breaking often, we can reduce these gas guzzling practices to conserve gas.
Even though these are great ways to save gas, these won't save nearly as much gas as the BEST way to save gas. The best way to save gas is to stop driving. I know, for most people that's impossible, and I understand that. Unless you live in a place where walking or biking everywhere wouldn't take up a lot of time or be extremely tiring, not driving is impossible. I have to drive almost everyday. What I am asking you to do is to reduce your driving. For every trip you don't take, you will save money. Here are some easy ways to save trips in your car.
First, try taking your ordinary trips less often. If you go food shopping a couple times a week, try going once a week or once every other week. Buy in bulk at a large bulk store and try shopping just once a month. This will save you on food and gas.
Even if your supermarket is only 3 to 6 miles away, if you are taking that trip twice a week, at 2 round-trips to the supermarket a week, that is traveling 12 to 24 miles a week, which for many people would transfer to an extra 4 or 5 gallons a month. If you are paying $3.50 per gallon for gas, you could save $14 to $17.50 a month, or $168 to $210 a year just from cutting back your grocery store trips.
Cut all your trips down wherever you can. Don't go to the mall every weekend, try to just go once a month or less. You'll probably also spend less at the mall if you go less often. Run all your errands on your way to the mall, setting them up so that it is one continuous line. There is no need to drive more places out of the way than necessary.
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, try not to drive so far for entertainment. Go out less and if you do go out, limit it to going close to home. Rent DVDs instead of going out to the movie theater. Stop eating out so often and cook for friends and family at home. Any of these tips can save you money. Put them all together and you could be saving a ton of money on gas every year.
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