1. Turn your air conditioning off
Yep, trying to stay cool as you cruise around town on useless errands by yourself is draining your gas tank. Feel free to use your heater this summer, though. It doesn’t take extra gas to run. Runing your heater may also help you with No. 2.
2. Reducing the weight in your car
For many of you that is going to mean going on a diet, but since you’re spending all your extra food-money on gas it shouldn’t be too much of a problem. If you own one of those mucho big-ass ford trucks, try removing that tool chest full of tools you have back there to prove you’re a real man/women (see, I'm not sexist).
3. Car Pooling
That means riding with someone else to work or school, even if you don’t like them, not going to the local pub to play a round of 9-ball.
4. Buy a more fuel efficient car you dork
5. Stop driving for the hell of it
6. Buy a scooter/bike/pair of shoes (and use them)
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I actually saw and episode of "mythbusters" on the Discovery channel once where they proved that there's no real difference between running your AC or driving with your windows open. The open windows create "drag" and that uses more gas as well. In fact in that show they said there was a very slight advantage in mileage if you ran your AC vs. driving with your windows open to keep cool.
Interesting. I remember watching an episode of "Mythbusters" on truck tailgates. The busted the myth that if you ran with your gate down you got more gas millage.
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