5 Simple, Straightforward and Sane Gas Savings Tips
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Gas prices have recently dropped with our slowing economy. At roughly $1.70 a gallon, it has been a minor relief for our pocket books. Yet OPEC recently cut production, which will cause prices to rise in the near term.
OPEC’s price targets will matter less as production itself becomes challenged, no matter how much they want to produce.
Yields Are Still Declining
The world’s mature oil fields that produce most of the world’s oil face production declines, with the prime fields showing a declining yield. Although oil exploration has been a priority, new infrastructure will be a long time coming before it can reach more recent finds like the Tupi field off Brazil’s coast.
Enjoy this brief lull in gas prices before they begin to rise again.
As gas prices rise, our money flows out of our pockets and into the gas tank. You’ve already switched to cheaper gas, emptied the junk out of your car to reduce its weight, and consolidated trips. Saving money on fuel costs doesn’t mean ditching the car just yet.
Here are a few tips to saving yourself gas money:
- Work from home. Review what you do at your job. Compile a list of regularly occurring paperwork that can be done from home. Offer to work from home on a slow day and be extremely productive.
If all goes well, offer to work from home 1 day every 2 weeks. If that works, offer to increase it to one day a week. If working from home is allowed once every 2 weeks, you have still reduced commuting costs 10%.
If you can manage once a week, you’ve saved 20%.
- As vacations roll around, stay local. Contact your local tourist bureau for all the attractions down the street and around the corner. You could find a good time without finding yourself far from home.
- Ride a bike. If you have a motorcycle in storage, save on gas and storage fees. Try commuting to work on two motorized wheels instead of four. Motorcycles get better gas mileage than cars.
If you are close enough to your work or your school to ride a bicycle, take that route and benefit from the exercise while you are at it!
- Car pool and rotate between houses for social gatherings. Look at who you are going to visit regularly. Offer your friends and family to reciprocate the trip. Sharing the pain of gas prices is caring for each other’s budget.
If more than one of your, your friends and your family are going in the same direction, you can car pool.
- Unless they are used at least once a month, take bike racks and trailer hitches off the car. Save the weight and the gas it takes to haul that weight from point A to point B per day.
Short of buying a horse or considering your pet a passenger for sake of the HOV lane, there are still simple, straightforward AND sane gas saving ideas left.
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