When I was driving a Jeep, I would sometimes have to fill up two to three times in one week at over $50 each stop!
Luckily, there are ways to try and preserve gasoline consumption while you are driving. For starters, have you ever considered slowing down to do the actual speed limit? There is a good reason why there are posted speed limits every few hundred feet on a road. It is to remind you that that is the safest speed to travel given the amount of foot traffic and regular traffic in the area. This is why you will see really low speed limits wherever there is a children's school. Would you feel comfortable sending your child to school in an area where motorists zip by at speeds in excess of sixty miles per hour?
Besides reducing your speed, you should also try to increase the distance between you and the other vehicle(s) in front of you to approximately two car lengths. I don't know why, but for some reason, people who live in North Carolina have an obsession with closing down this distance, which leads to numerous car accidents. When you increase the space between other motorists around you, you are essentially giving yourself more time to react to whatever the drivers around you are doing. For example, if the person in front of you suddenly decides to slam on his or her brakes while you are driving right on top of them, do you really think that you will have enough time to properly react to their actions? Chances are, you will more than likely crash into the back of them.
Just the other day, I witnessed yet another car accident in which a person was following another motorist too closely. The light in the intersection changed from yellow to red, but instead of running the light, the person in front decided it would be a safer idea to slow down and stop. However, the person behind them was sure that the person in front of them would run the light, giving them a chance to run the light also. They never left themselves enough reaction time because they were so close to the car ahead of them that they wound up crashing into the vehicle. Now, who do you think was more upset?
When we speed up and slow down, this is often referred to as 'surging'. When you surge, you are wasting gasoline because of how often you accelerate to decelerate. So, the next time that you go out for a drive, reduce your speed, leave enough reaction time in between you and other vehicles and be vigilant about what other drivers around you are doing. Remember, that a lot of saving on gas expenses has to do with how you drive your own vehicle. If you have a lead foot or if you exercise a lot of road rage on your daily commutes, then you'll be looking at a significantly higher gasoline bill.
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