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Driver's safety practices improve Gas Economy

By: Carla Heine

Professional Safety Tips And Improved Mileage?

Free tips decrease spending at the pump!

Here are several really helpful professional safety tips to improve mileage:

1: Lighten Your car's Load:

The car is not an off site storage area. Remove all unnecessary items from your trunk and cabin. Leave extra peopleat home. The lighter the load in your car the easier it is on your engine. The less weight, the less gas is used by the engine.

2. Know Your Vehicles' Maintainence Requirements:

Read the manual. Know your ideal tire pressure, and check it every time. Change the oil on schedule. Get tune-ups on time! Old or new, cars and trucks need maintainence!

3. Stay At The Posted Speed Limits:

Unless your car was built for the NASCAR races, the lawful speed limit on highways, freeways, and sharp turns is the most efficient speed for maximizing mileage. Car companies and professional drivers know this is both a safety tip and a mileage extender that saves lives.

4. Ask Yourself: "Is This Trip Really Necessary?"

There's a humongous difference between real need, and perceived need. Don't let anyone bully you into an unnecessary trip. This is a good metaphor from the 1960's. Find creative alternatives and make them stick!

5. Take The Smallest Vehicle First:

If you have access to two or more automobiles, take the most fuel efficient car available. Ok, you might feel silly in your son's dune buggy, but you get the idea. Take the jeep, or the hybrid, not the Hummer. On family trips, limit the luggage.

6. Use the CorrectTool For the Correct Job:

Do not send an immature family member to do an adult's job; they tend to be easily sidetracked from their stated mission. They could choose to take the long way home past cheer-leading, or football practice, or the used car lot, and waste fuel on impulse sight-seeing, or unplanned diversions!

7. You Paid Extra for Cruise Control So:

Use the cruise-control. This can stretch the mileage in a hybrid from 35mpg to an astounding 68mpg! Even the worst old land-yacht will get better mileage with cruise control. No cruise control? Keep even pressure on the go-pedal. Leave revving the engine, and red-lining tachometers, to the pros.

Sometimes we are so smart, we forget to remember the obvious.

1. Consolidate Your Errands:

Commence with the errand farthest from your house. Drive there at a steady pace. Then work your way back toward home. Organization is essential here. Do the list, but no add-ons! Know your own energy and time limitations, so you won't feel rushed, or tempted to speed. DHL and FedEx aren't the only companies who have used these professional safety tips for improved mileage!

2. Doing Business Locally Saves Money:

Weigh the advantage to close-to-home shopping. You can probably find what you need without having to leave town. Support local businesses. Get out and about in your community. Find a nearby farmer's market. Are local prices a bit higher? Calculate added cost of gas, wear, and tear on you, and your car, plus "trip" time, and you may actually come out considerably ahead!

3. Meet Family Half-way:

Are you always the one who pays for the long drive to visit family and friends? True, at times no other way will work due to circumstances like a newborn who can't travel yet, or elders who don't drive, but meeting half-way for an weekend outing, or a visit, can open many unexpected opportunities for fun.

4.Don't spend a nickel on a new car or truck yet:

Patented hydrogen systems and fuel atomizer systems were deemed impractical when gas was only 25 cents a gallon. Now they are out of the "black box". Check one out at: http://tinyurl.com/6lhzzo and see how you can make your gas or diesel truckwork smarter, not harder! And so can You!

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Carla Heine commenced her professional writing career as an in-house management consultant to Fortune 500 companies. She has a strong background in teaching k-12. She was a sound designer for The Children's Theatre Network (a feeder school for The Children's Television Network; think Sesame Street and Disney). Her live radio show "Strange Wine; History and the Paranormal" has aired on KSVY 91.3FM every Saturday night from 11pm to Midnight for over five years. KSVY podcasts her past shows @ ksvy.org. See her free "Haunted Sonoma" mini-tour at You Tube URL: vvzO-zKqTyk.) She blogs at: www.blogger.com/phantompress and writes informational articles for those who wish to improve their life experience and the environment around us. See how she spends only $4.00 on gas for a two hour tour in her 6 passenger 22ft long limousine at: tinyurl.com/6lhzzo

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