Good article. I do pretty well for a non-hybrid driver. I use very little gas because I work 10 minutes from home, as well as work at home the other two days of the week. I do all errands on ONE day a week. If we don’t have it on hand, we live without it ‘til the next Errand Day. No silly side-trips to The Mall for anything. I keep my oil and filters clean and my tire pressure where it should be.
I have a four-door Nissan Maxima that’s 13 years old now. used when I bought it. It was a Doctor’s “middle of the night emergency car” and only had 14K on it then. She still gets between 30-35 MPG depending on where I’m driving; most of my driving is country roads, but mileage goes up when we hit the Interstate. ;)
I tank up twice a month and that’s it.
Do I do it to ‘save the planet’ or make the EnviroWackos happy? Nope. I do it because I’m CHEAP, LOL!
“I do all errands on ONE day a week. If we don’t have it on hand, we live without it ‘til the next Errand Day.”
You are a smart cookie.
I started looking at my driving patterns and realized that I could EASILY cut my mileage by 30-45%.
All it takes is a little planning.
The days of going whenever the notion strikes us are coming to an end.