If you have a car, stop whatever you're doing and go check the air pressure of your vehicle's tires.
Apart from keeping your car in park, pumping up your tires to their proper "PSI" - pounds per square inch - is the fastest, cheapest way to reduce how much gasoline you use.
Tires have a tendency to lose pressure over time or when the weather changes substantially; a car driving on underinflated tires needs more gas to move. You can gain 3.3% in fuel efficiency by inflating your tires. And with gasoline costing over $4/per gallon, every 3.3% gain means money in your pocket.
That gain also affords an immediate way to increase our supply of oil. If we all pumped up our tires to their proper PSI, the U.S. could easily gain from conservation (i.e., using less fuel) three times as much oil as we could reap from far more costly and environmentally dangerous off-shore oil drilling. And that oil is available TODAY, not ten or twenty years hence - the time it takes to develop oil fields and convert petroleum into gasoline.
Tire gauges are cheap. You can buy one for $10-$15 at your local auto supply store; or look here. If you don't know how to check your tire pressure, this video offers a good explanation.
You can save $20-$50 a month on gasoline if you not only pump up your tires but take other simple steps as well. Here are the top ten ways to beat high gas prices and increase America's oil supply.
Apart from keeping your car in park, pumping up your tires to their proper "PSI" - pounds per square inch - is the fastest, cheapest way to reduce how much gasoline you use.
Tires have a tendency to lose pressure over time or when the weather changes substantially; a car driving on underinflated tires needs more gas to move. You can gain 3.3% in fuel efficiency by inflating your tires. And with gasoline costing over $4/per gallon, every 3.3% gain means money in your pocket.
That gain also affords an immediate way to increase our supply of oil. If we all pumped up our tires to their proper PSI, the U.S. could easily gain from conservation (i.e., using less fuel) three times as much oil as we could reap from far more costly and environmentally dangerous off-shore oil drilling. And that oil is available TODAY, not ten or twenty years hence - the time it takes to develop oil fields and convert petroleum into gasoline.
Tire gauges are cheap. You can buy one for $10-$15 at your local auto supply store; or look here. If you don't know how to check your tire pressure, this video offers a good explanation.
You can save $20-$50 a month on gasoline if you not only pump up your tires but take other simple steps as well. Here are the top ten ways to beat high gas prices and increase America's oil supply.
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