Driving Green: Fuel Conservation Techniques

Fuel is one of the most expensive and sought after commodity in our world. We use it for our transportation, for other businesses and for manufacturing companies to name a few. Due to it’s never ending price increase, every person who drives or owns a car need to learn how to conserve his or fuel so they can go on the best road trip ever!

Conservation tips

Properly inflate your tires
Drivers must always remember to check their tires. This is probably one of the cheapest and easiest way to control a person’s fuel intake but it is often overlooked. If a diver will travel with tires that lack air, they will end up burning more fuel to gain more power to move on.

Weight Check
Make it a practice to clean up or de-clutter your car. When they are loaded with too many heavy things, the tendency of most machines will be to bring out more power thus using up more fuel. According to studies, for every 200lbs of weight added to your car, it will trim about one mile off your fuel efficiency.

Buy in Morning
It is probably not a known fact that consumers are charged based on the volume and not the density of what they are buying. This is why they say its best if you purchase gasoline early in the morning when the temperature is cold enough and gasoline will be at its densest.

Idling
Did you know that when your engine is idling for a longer period of time, you are probably consuming gallons of gas but your mileage is zero? That’s probably one of the saddest things ever that you will see on your dashboard! Plus when you are restarting your engine, you are more or less using up the same amount of gasoline when you are idling by for about thirty seconds. So remember, when you are pulling off the road to make a call or text to someone, just do yourself a favor and turn off your engine.

Scheduled Maintenance
Just like any appliance, cars must also be well maintained. If you properly maintain your vehicle’s air filters, you will have better fuel economy. Remember that when your engine’s air supply is clogged up, you will end up with a higher air to fuel ratio. Whenever this happens, your engine will try and make up for it and end up using up more gasoline.

Energy Conscious
Remember those tips about turning off lights and unplugging etc? Well, it also applies to your car. Drivers should always practice energy saving with their vehicles as well. The best example of this would be to turn off your air conditioning if you are not using it. It can reduce 5% to 20% of your gas consumption and drain your engine power if you’re not careful.

Follow the Speed Limit
If a driver adheres to the speed limit and anticipates the traffic flow, he will be able to save up on his fuel. If you keep on traveling at fast speeds you will only end up burning up more fuel. You’re more likely to spend around 15% more of your fuel if you drive at 65mph rather than 55mph.

Plus, if you already anticipate the traffic flow, stops and other road changes, you won’t have to subject your vehicle to jackrabbit stops or starts and consume more fuel. A driver can probably save about 20% of his fuel economy if he chooses to drive smoothly rather than aggressively.
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