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Tips On How to SAVE GASOLINE!

Are you tired of the continuing rise in gasoline price? If you are, you’re not alone. In this article, you’ll find a few excellent tips designed to help you save a bit of your hard earned money.

First, its always best to purchase your gas either first thing in the morning or late at night. The reason for this is because gas is denser at a cold temperature, so you’ll basically be getting more for your money.

Secondly, check your local gas prices to find the best price available. You can check your local gas prices online as well, which will prevent you from wasting gas while driving around to look for the best price.

By keeping your car well maintained, you can help improve fuel consumption. By simply tuning your car, you can decrease your fuel consumption by up to 20 percent. Also, you should keep your tires properly inflated and aligned. Tires that are under inflated will cause fuel consumption to increase by 6 percent. You should also make sure that you change your oil and air filters on a regular basis as well.

Other tips to keep in mind are to drive by staying in the posted speed limits, as the faster you drive you will use more fuel. Whenever possible you should use overdrive, as this will help fuel and also improve the wear on your engine. You can also combine your errands by making a list of things that you have to do, as the more you cold start your engine, the more fuel you’ll be using.

By taking the time to do these tips, you’ll be amazed at just how much fuel you can save. Gas prices are becoming ridiculous these days, which is why you want to do your part to converse every little drop that you can. Also did you know a new product has just been released on how to run your car on a water and gas mixture that will cut your gasoline use by half. You can check it out in my Bio Box.

I hope that this article has helped you in some way!

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By: Kade Phillips

At kanetix, our interest is in insurance, so we keep our eyes open for any new developments that may affect the auto insurance industry. Recently, rumors of a breakthrough by a little known company called EEStor caught our attention because of the far reaching implications of the technology they may have developed.
Every so often, a technology comes along that promises to revolutionize the world. More often than not, these claims eventually fizzle, and we’re left disappointed and more skeptical of the next claim that comes around. Sometimes, new technology appears and at first, it’s seen as quaint and amusing, and dismissed by the prognosticators of the day, only to go on to revolutionize the way we do things and make fortunes for those with the foresight to jump on board early.
This was true of many technologies in their infancy. Take the automobile for instance. When it first began making an appearance in the late 19th century, many folks clung to the belief that it could never truly replace the trusty, reliable horse. Same thing with aircraft - too flakey and dangerous to be of any real use. More recently, the personal computer made its first appearance in the late seventies, and even some of the most technologically astute among us, failed to grasp the full implications of its arrival, until there was a machine popping up on every second desktop.
Recently, rumblings of an astonishing breakthrough in “electrical energy storage technology” from a practically unheard of company called EEStor, out of Cedar Park, Texas, have some claiming that we are on the verge of a complete revolution in electric powered vehicles.
With EEStor, you can forget about Hybrids, ethanol or hydrogen powered vehicles and even fuel cell technology.
If the rumors are true then EEStor have developed the next “really big thing”.
Imagine an “electrical energy storage device” that can charge up in minutes, power a vehicle for hundreds and hundreds of miles on less than ten dollars worth of electricity (at today’s prices) and allow for performance characteristics that rival those of today’s super cars. Not only that, but the device is claimed to weigh one-tenth the weight of conventional lead-acid batteries, with practically unlimited re-charging cycles and be only slightly more expensive than today’s mid range conventional gasoline power sources. Sounds too good to be true – right?
Unfortunately, EEStor is being pretty secretive about the whole thing, and who can blame them. If the rumors are true, EEStor could be in possession of technology that will literally change our world, and they will no doubt be a household name in fairly short order.
As we said earlier, at kanetix, our interest is in insurance, and we wondered how such a revolution in automotive technology (if true) might affect the auto insurance rates of those who drive such a vehicle. Well, EEStor is unlikely to be thinking about such things, but we sure are.
Now, it wouldn’t be the first time that so called “revolutionary technology” failed to materialize as envisioned, but it does seem that we’re overdue for some kind of technological breakthrough in battery or “electric energy storage” technology, with not a huge amount of progress over the last hundred years or so. So, out of interest, kanetix took a look at some data that we were able to gather through our sister site: http://www.kanetix.ca, regarding the insurance rates in Canada for some of today’s advanced hybrid vehicles. We wanted to see if we could discern a trend in auto insurance rates for cars of this nature.
While hybrid vehicles have only been around since around 2000, we were able to compare insurance quotes for the Toyota Prius Hybrid, Ford Escape Hybrid, Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Honda Civic Hybrid. What we found was not especially encouraging, nor especially discouraging, with a bright spot along the way.
If you remove a driver’s “personal insurance and driving experience,” there was basically no real difference in premiums quoted. But, it does seem that some auto insurance providers are trying to encourage the trend to “greener” auto technology, with small discounts of around 10% for such cleaner fuel vehicles.
What our survey basically tells us is that regardless of technology, car insurance will always be based on the same basic things, namely, how often they are stolen, how much they cost to repair after an accident, their propensity to be in an accident and the frequency and severity of injuries if in an accident. And, of course, an individual driver’s “personal insurance and driving experience.”
EEStor may indeed have found the holy grail of “electrical energy storage technology”, but unless auto makers are able to incorporate this new power source into safer, more crash resistant and cheaper-to-repair vehicles, we are unlikely to see insurance rates for electrically powered vehicles decline significantly over regular gasoline powered cars.

Disclaimer - The above description/explanation is intended as a guideline only, and is not to be interpreted as a recommendation to buy or sell any insurance products, or to provide legal or financial advice of any kind. Also, Kanetix Ltd. does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed.

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by Donald Willson
A lot of things have changed since I was a youngster. I remember the day when I worked on the corner gas station pumping gas, cleaning windows and checking oil, the last two of which you find very few stations doing anymore. The whole idea of “full-service” is pretty much a thing of the past, however this is a subject for a different article. During those days I had the part-time job at the gas station, the ozone layer was something that astronomers and astronauts worried about and not something that he had to worry about breaking down thereby burning a hole in this beloved planet we live on.

The cost of gas was $.16 a gallon - yes you heard me - $.16 a GALLON! We drove cars that got on a good day 18 miles per gallon and it didn’t break the bank or increase the interest rate on your credit card just to fill up the tank. We would ask mom and dad for a five spot to go cruising up and down the main drag, not the credit card charge of $30 or more that it takes now. It’s no wonder that the old folks (like myself) who are now the parents of children cruisin’ the drag came up with the idea of alternative fuels to try and save ourselves a few bucks at the pump as well as save the planet that we so dearly love and yet manage to almost destroyed the last 30 years or so.

One solution to this has been to make engines smaller, cars smaller and sometimes I even wonder if they’ve made people smaller - because I sure can’t fit in these boxes. I actually saw a car that couldn’t have been more than a lawnmower engine with wheels, which were no larger than the ones I used to make my go carts out of when I was (once again) a kid! The car itself was boxy and it did sound a lot like a lawnmower going down the street but hey - I am sure it got great gas mileage!

Another solution is to change the gasoline we run our cars on. What does this mean? Well, we remove the lead, an anti-knock agent which was needed in the old days because we didn’t have super computers tuning our cars for us as we drive. We eliminated High octane fuel which to tell the truth pretty much killed a lot of the old muscle cars (Ahh.. the sound of a big V8 in the morning!). and then, we added ethanol (grain alcohol) to the gas to try to thin it out and help it run cleaner. A step in the right direction but personally, I always like my grain alcohol with a twist and just a plash of gin!

The other solution we have come up with alternative fuels. So far these consist of been added it to the fuels we’ve reduced or eliminated lead in the fuel which was an anti-knock agent but it did so pollute our atmosphere in which since replaced it with grain alcohol (funny I used to look at that as a kid to drink not to run my car on). The grain alcohol is supposed to reduce emissions while at the same time converting some of the emissions to water vapor that goes into the doesn’t do any good but it doesn’t do as much harm. But this is not the solution.

They did have come out with hybrid cars now which run on electricity the last word a combination of gasoline and electricity switching back and forth between the two is the load on the engine dictates. You have to admit this is a pretty smart idea however and makes for a maintenance nightmare because of the weight of the batteries carried in the car cancel out any real advantage of having a hybrid car in the first place. Don’t get me wrong, it does some good just not enough to make a difference.

You also have the companies and entrepreneurs that are working on pure electric cars. Unfortunately these haven’t made a big impact on the road right now because it requires so many batteries at the car is incredibly heavy and the batteries and the batteries don’t have a long life in the car so they have to be replaced sooner than any engine overhaul would take place. This is a very expensive ordeal as well as you have to find a specialty shop to that would be able to do it for you. They do have one battery that does show some promise -it’s called the “sulfur battery”. The only problem with this battery is it needs a key element in it out in the field to keep sulfur in its liquid state about 300 plus degrees. Not a good thing to have rumbling around in your trunk! Let’s face it batteries just have not made it to a level or place where they can take to the road as well as a gasoline engine.

One of the more exciting things that I’ve seen is called the hydrogen fuel-cell. This unique little device takes water and converts it to electricity by using special layers of chemicals and minerals to separate the hydrogen in the action from each other and causing his chemical reaction that generates electricity between the plates and thereby supplying electricity to whatever needs to be run-in this case the motor in the car. This is probably one of the more exciting developments as come along however it doesn’t create a lot of electricity only creating a few milliamps or a few amps here and there where running cars can take hundreds of amps, especially during hard acceleration. So until they develop this little bit further its out as well.

Honestly I believe that at this point in time since we don’t have anything else to run our cars are than gasoline, I believe the hybrid engine is the way to go. But electricity doesn’t really seem the way to go to me and additives to the fuel make it inefficient or simply don’t exist at this time. There has been one promising area that I believe should be pursued…

The idea of hydrogen being injected into an engine is a good idea-they actually came up with this some time ago running an engine completely on hydrogen. Do have to admit it was pretty much a rolling firetrap if it ever got into an accident the hydrogen itself is very explosive in very small quantities so great care has to be taken in its care and handling.

Now comes the idea I read about. What if one were able to use water as a fuel? It’s plentiful it’s everywhere and it’s a renewable resource. “How is a renewable” you ask? Well it’s car word to runoff water were some component thereof it’s only product coming out of the exhaust pipe would be any guess? Water! The water goes up in the air, and comes down as rain. It’s renewed! It’s a wonderful idea and a few people are working on exactly that idea. Personally, I’m hoping some big corporation picks up on the idea and runs with it. It would be the best possible thing for a planet and face it possible thing for us as a race!

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