How To Save On Gasoline

From: Robert Karl Skoglund
Length: 01:17

Would you like to know how to cut your gas bills, not just for today but three and four years from now? Read the full description.

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From: Robert Karl Skoglund

Humbleoats_small When it comes to paying for gas at the pumps, most of us are only thinking about how much it hurts today. But we should be thinking about what we can do now to keep the price of gasoline from rising even more in the immidiate years ahead. The good news is that you can do something about it.

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When it comes to paying for gas at the pumps, most of us are only thinking about how much it hurts today. But we should be thinking about what we can do now to keep the price of gasoline from rising even more in the immidiate years ahead. The good news is that you can do something about it.

Transcript

Gas now costs more than three times what it did only a couple of administrations ago so you might have looked for some on-line articles that tell you how to save fuel. I have one here in my hand. It says that every five miles per hour over 60 miles per hour that you drive costs you an extra 20 cents a gallon for gas. It would be nice to set the cruise control and travel our interstates at a sensible 60 miles per hour. But in the real world, when you are in two solid lines of traffic that are both moving 80 miles an hour, is it sensible to drive 60? Tell me what happened to you if you ever tried to drive 60 when both lanes were going 80. Luckily, on most roads you can safely drive in a manner that could save you $1 per gallon. You could probably save even more than that if you think about the price of oil the next time you vote in a presidential election.
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