Start Driving Less
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.
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.
Take less trips. If you go to the grocery store a few times a week, try going just once a week. Go to a bulk store and try shopping just once a month to save money on food and gas simultaneously.
If your grocery store is 5 miles from your house and you take 3 trips to the grocery store every week, your driving about 30 miles a week. If you get 25 miles per gallon on your car, and gas costs $4 a gallon, you're spending about $19 a month. Cut that down to 2 trips a month and you'll save about $16 a month or $192 a year. That's quite a bit of savings for just gas to the grocery store.
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.
You can save a lot of gas by carpooling. The farther you go, the more you'll save, and the more people you carpool with, the more you'll save. Ask around your work to see if anyone you work with lives near you and is willing to drive. Then ask neighbors you know well and see if anyone works near you. You could carpool with them as well.
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.
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.
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.
Take less trips. If you go to the grocery store a few times a week, try going just once a week. Go to a bulk store and try shopping just once a month to save money on food and gas simultaneously.
If your grocery store is 5 miles from your house and you take 3 trips to the grocery store every week, your driving about 30 miles a week. If you get 25 miles per gallon on your car, and gas costs $4 a gallon, you're spending about $19 a month. Cut that down to 2 trips a month and you'll save about $16 a month or $192 a year. That's quite a bit of savings for just gas to the grocery store.
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.
You can save a lot of gas by carpooling. The farther you go, the more you'll save, and the more people you carpool with, the more you'll save. Ask around your work to see if anyone you work with lives near you and is willing to drive. Then ask neighbors you know well and see if anyone works near you. You could carpool with them as well.
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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