Air conditioning effect on gas mileage

Did you know that driving with your air conditioning on all the time can decrease your gas mileage by almost 10%. The air conditioning system increases load on the engine by 10 to 20%. If it is cool out and you don't need the air, shut off the air conditioning in your car and just cool down with the vent system.

Calculate Fuel Cost and Save Gas

Looking for ways to do some research on gas prices on a national average. Check out AAAs site at www.Fuelgaugereport.com

AAA also has another site that allows vistors to calculate the cost of an actual trip. Check out www.fuelcostcalculator.com

Increase gas mileage with proper tire inflation

Did you know that underinflated tires is one of the best ways to reduce gas mileage. 20% underinflation reduces gas mileage by 10%. The best thing to do is purchase a good air pressure guage and check your air pressure at least once per month to maintain your optimum gas mileage.

Buy tire pressue monitors

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Get 10% cash back on your gas purchases

Did you know that some credit cards offer cash back rewards. Some offer as much as 5% rebates on purchases of gas. At $3.20 per gallon you would be getting a $.16 reduction per gallon. What our though some credit cards only allow you so much cash back per year and then you don't receive any additional rebate.

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Top 10 Most Fuel-Efficient Cars for 2005

The 10 most fuel-efficient cars currently sold in the U.S. with the exception of the Plymouth Neon are all transplant cars, the Pontiac Vibe is made by the GM/Toyota joint venture. Fuel economy is calculated based on the following 55 percent of city mpg rating plus 45 percent of highway mpg rating. The rating for each vehicle below is expressed in mpg as a city/highway ratio. Whats kinda of amazing is the Honda Civic Hx which gets 44 mpg on the highway. This is almost as good ad the VW Golf which has a diesel engine.

• Honda Insight — 61/66
• Toyota Prius — 60/51*
• Honda Civic Hybrid — 45/51
• Volkswagen Golf TDI — 38/46
• Volkswagen Jetta TDI — 38/46
• Volkswagen New Beetle TDI — 38/46
• Honda Civic HX — 36/44
• Toyota Echo — 35/42
• Toyota Corolla — 32/41
• Scion xA — 32/37
• Honda Accord Hybrid — 30/37*
• Pontiac Vibe — 30/36
• Toyota Matrix — 30/36
• Scion xB — 31/35*
  Dodge Neon — 29/36
• Toyota Celica GT — 29/36*

Slow down and improve your gas mileage

Did you know that aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration and braking) wastes gas. It can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds and by 5 percent around town. Sensible driving is also safer for you and others, so you may save more than gas money.

For the complete story on driving tips go to: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/driveHabits.shtml

Car fuel economy ratings

Are you looking for a fuel efficient car? Buying a used car and not sure what type of mileage it might get. Check out http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.htm this site provides you with a search engine that allows you to look up mileage for cars by year, make, and model.

Another link on the site allows you to do a preselected search that automatically finds the highest and lowest mileage vehicles. Click here to view this site. http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bestworst.shtml

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Find cheap gas resources

Are you trying to find the cheapest gas around, stop driving around and looking for the cheap gas. Goto one of the following resources, they have up to date prices on gas in your state.

http://www.gasbuddy.com/
http://www.gaspricewatch.com/new/

Always Compare Gas Prices.This sounds obvious, but gas prices can vary up to 25 cents per gallon from station to station and city to city. If you live near another state, try checking gas prices across the state border. State taxes vary significantly and can affect the price dramatically. Also the so called "generic" gas stations are usually cheaper than the name brand ones by about 10%. Sometime name brand gas stations have to spend extra money on marketing and pass that cost to you.

Prepaid Gas Cards

Another way to reduce the cost of driving is through purchasing discounted gas cards. Speedway gas stations offers gas cards at a discount. Purchase a $50 gas card for $48 per card. This is equal to a 4% reduction in the cost of the gas.

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