This is a Guest Post by Todd @ Fearless Dollar — it’s part of his 5 site series on How To Save on Gas Money.
Are you driving to see family this holiday season? Taking a road trip to see the fam can be cheaper and more (or less) convenient than taking a flight.
If you haven’t noticed, in the past 10 days fuel prices have dropped 50 cents in many areas across the country. But don’t be deceived, they’re still a lot higher than they were just 5 years ago.
If you want to save money on driving, here’s our 5 site series on saving fuel. I’m posting across five websites, so make sure to check out all the tips!
Fuel Saving Driving Tips
Tips 11 – 15 AllThingsFinance.net
Tips 16 – 25 American Debt Project
Tips 25 – 30 Daily Tips Blog
What burns gas more than anything?
A. Frequent and sudden acceleration
B. Frequent and sudden braking
C. Excessive idling
These are the main reasons city driving cost so much more fuel than driving on a highway. What are the best ways to save gas?
26. Maintain your car
In every sense of that statement, utilize and maintain your car as your machine of choice. Because it is!
Maintaining your car according to its schedule will not only lengthen how long you can use it, but will help retain its fuel efficiency.
27. Know the season
Avoid prolonged warming up of engine. Aside from getting your heater blasting, modern cars don’t need more than 30-45 seconds of warm-up time.
Make sure you don’t use deep-tread tires or snow chains when you don’t need to. These will guzzle up the use of gas!
28. Buy a fuel efficient car
The next time you’re on the market for a car, keep in mind its fuel-efficiency, especially when looking at used cars. You’ll eventually resell it, and moving forward cars with poor fuel efficiency will be harder to sell.
29. Buy gasoline during the coolest part of the day
The cooler the temperature, the denser the gas. Meaning when you fill up, you’ll be getting a little bit more fuel.
30. Cut down on frequent and excessive acceleration and braking
Speeding up and then coming to quick hard stops is not only wearing on your car, but burning up fuel unnecessarily.
Checkout gas saving tips 1 – 5 on Fearless Men!
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