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Titled: How To Save on Gas Without Changing Your Driving Habits
How To Save on Gas Without Changing Your Driving Habits
Article Summary: There are a lot of ways you can work to reduce your expense of fuel purchases without changing the way you drive. You can utilize a lot of these strategies without the need to modify or service your vehicle. These methods are basic and logical and teach you to treat gas like anything else you buy.
There are a lot of ways you can work to reduce your expense of fuel purchases without changing the way you drive. You can utilize a lot of these strategies without the need to modify or service your vehicle. These methods are basic and logical and teach you to treat gas like anything else you buy.
One of the easiest and most basic methods is smart shopping for gas. If you were buying a camera you would shop around for the store with the lowest price. For some reason most of us were trained to treat gas differently. You probably buy gas where it is convenient regardless of price. That is what you need to change.
As with anything else you want to save money buying, you need to shop around for the lowest price. Of course you have to be careful keeping in mind that if you use 5 gallons of gasoline to find the lowest price it will be self defeating. The idea is to do the comparison shopping without consuming gas doing it.
Shop around in your neighborhood for the lowest price gas that you can find but don't go too far out of your way. As soon as you start driving the meter starts running. Since the idea is to save money you would be working against yourself by driving around for too long.
The AAA has done studies that indicate that on average it costs approximately 51.7 cents per mile to operate your vehicle. That is the number for cars so if you drive an SUV or truck it is higher. At 51.7 cents per mile every two miles you drive to find a better deal could be costing you $1.00.
If you have a 15 gallon tank that you would fill (assuming you were empty) to the top, you would have to find a price 10 cents lower than your usual station. Every three miles after that you would need to save another 10 cents. You can see that very quickly over a short distance the potential savings decreases and in fact if you drive too far you could end up spending more money.
The smart way to shop around is to find the low price stations during your normal daily driving. By doing that you will not be using any extra gas. Keep a small notebook in your car. As you see stations that have low prices note the location in your notebook.
After reviewing the information on pricing and locations of gas stations collected in your notebook, you can decide to stop at a gas station that has been flagged in your notebook to have the lowest prices. Fill up at that station as you will be driving near it in the course of your daily route. You saved all the gas you would use driving around looking. Instead you are following your normal route and still able to take advantage of the best gas prices. The bottom line is you will spend less on gas!
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