Gas Saving Tip #5
[ July 30th, 2008 ] By: Charles Smith Posted in » Tips and Tricks
Gas stations need to be refilled just like your car. The trucks that fill the gas stations have pretty busy schedules, so they pump in the gasoline as fast as they can. That is all fine and dandy until you are refilling your car soon after they refill the gas station. The refilling process stirs up all the particulate matter that settles out of the gasoline in the storage tanks. The particulate matter then gets pulled up into the gas pumps and into your car.
So don’t fill up at a gas station that has been refilled recently. While a small amount, you’ll be spending parts of a penny on things that are not gasoline and paying for it as gasoline. Plus you will be making your fuel filter work just that much harder and possibly restrict its flow over time. So if you see the gas truck in the gas station, keep away from there for a few hours. It might save you that much more (if your time is worth it).
July 30th, 2008 at 12:57 am
If it really gets to this point, just sell your car and walk everywhere. This…this is stretching it. So, without further ado:
OTHER GAS SAVING TIPS
Remove airbags and seatbelts. Getting rid of that extra weight will surely net you some more efficiency.
Fill in all your cylinders except 1. The notoriously efficient 1 banger will reap fantastic awards in both highway and city driving.
Lose weight and/or tell your girlfriend to lose weight. Or just don’t date a fat chick.
Put a fairing over your car to turn it into that aerodynamic wonder that is the teardrop shape. Sure, you’ll look like a fool and your car will be fifteen feet long, but you’ll be laughing all the way to the bank at 7 mph.
Pretend you’re Sammy Hagar’s evil (or good) twin and ONLY drive 55. You may get yelled at on residential streets and honked at on the faster highways, but you’ll be getting optimal gas mileage in record time!
Make your friends drive every time you go get fast food. If you never drive, you never use gas.
Open a gas savings account at your local bank. With a good interest rate, you can get a fantastic return on all gas you deposit. Online bankers will give you an even better interest rate, netting you even more gas!
Siphon gas from your neighbors. Sure, YOU’RE still using the same amount of gas, but THEY can’t get to work in the morning. So, you ride cheap and you can rest easy knowing you’re doin’ right by the environment.
Lasso larger, faster cars and let them pull you until you get to where you need to go. Or hell, just do it for fun.