Posts Tagged ‘gas guzzlers’

Easiest to hardest.

1. Don’t idol needlessly: In a drive-through; waiting to pick up someone; leaving the kids in a running car to watch a DVD. If it’s more than 30 seconds, turn it off.

2. Don’t drive aggressively. Coast up to red lights, no need to have one peddle on the floor at all times. You don’t have to be right on someone rear; it wastes gas and causes the domino effect of stop & go traffic. Accelerate slowly, you don’t save much time. Leave two minutes early, increase your millage up to 30%.

3. Open the windows, turn off the air, especially don’t wait for someone while idling with the air on. Roll down the windows, you’ll live.

4. Walk, bike, bus, train whenever you can.

5. Don’t buy SUV’s or other gas guzzlers. How often do you pack it to capacity and use all that space. Save on payments, gas, insurance, etc. Buy a hybrid or a smaller car and rent a van or truck when needed.

6. Live near your work. Work near your home.

The "Cash for Clunkers" program ended this week but reportedly consumers bought almost 700,000 new vehicles. DO you think this program truly replaced gas-guzzlers with vehicles that are that much more petroleum saving? Do you think the government truly had the environment and climate in mind or do you think this was just another form of bail-out for car manufacturers?