Top 7 Tips to Getting the Best Gas Mileage From Your Car

Keep Your Engine Properly Tuned Just a minor tune up, when done well, can help you go farther between fill-ups.
Equivalent Gasoline Savings: $0.14/gallon Fix a serious problem:

Obey Speed Limits Not just safer, paying attention to your speed yields savings at the pump.
Equivalent Gasoline Savings: $0.04$0.07/gallon For each 5 mph you drive over 50 mph :

-2% per 100 lbs

+40%

Aggressive driving in the city:

-5%
Aggressive driving on the highway:

+4%

Get a tune up:

-33 %

Drive Sensibly
Keeping your tires inflated to the proper pressure:

Dont be idle.

-$0.90 to $1.80 per hr

Idling:

+3.3%

Aggressive driving* is defined as speeding, rapid acceleration and braking. Drive like this and see huge cuts to your mileage.
Equivalent Gasoline Savings: $0.18$1.19/gallon
*

Leave your car running and watch the gas gauge go down. Idling uses up to half a gallon of fuel per hour! Shut off your engine when stopped.
Equivalent Gasoline Savings: $0.90-$1.80/hour
*

Keep Tires Properly Inflated When inflating tires, look for the manufacturer recommendation. Dont go by the info on the tire.
Equivalent Gasoline Savings: Up to $0.11/gallon Under-inflated tires:

Cost savings are based on an assume fuel price of $3.61/gallon.

Aggressive driving not only robs your car of gas mileage, but kills thousands every year. Please drive safely.

Buy a Fuel-Efficient Car The difference between a car that gets 20 MPG and one that gets 30 MPG amounts to $903 per year (assuming 15,000 miles of driving annually and a fuel cost* of $3.61).

-0.3 %

Using the wrong grade:

- up to 2%

Use the manufacturers recommended grade of motor oil:

Use the Recommended Grade of Motor Oil When buying motor oil it can be tempting to grab whatever is cheapest or easily available. But what you save at the register, you pay for at the gas station.
Equivalent Gasoline Savings: $0.04$0.07/gallon

+1-2%

That's $4,515 extra in fuel costs over five years!

+ indicates a gain in gas mileage - indicates a drop in gas mileage

Resource: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/maintain.shtml

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