Drive two months for free
Without investing a penny, most drivers can save 15% on their fuel bill – equivalent to almost two months of free driving a year.
It’s all in how you drive, and here are the two critical habits for savings:
1. accelerate gently – resist that urge to ‘tramp on it’, because that’s when your engine slurps HUGE amounts of fuel. Then coast as much as possible, and brake gently.
2. limit your speed to 100 KMH or less. Generally, the slower you go, the more you save.
Here’s proof these two practices work: my Toyota Echo gave me 60 miles per gallon (21 KM/litre) last week, well above the car’s official rating.
For more great fuel-saving tips, visit
http://www.ecodriver.org/pages/Fuel-EfficientDriving.php. And
take a 2-minute ride (via YouTube) with the ‘king of hypermiling’: he gets twice his vehicle’s rated fuel mileage!!
In the news:
Arg – the Harper government has (quietly) released a report showing that its programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
will produce just 10% of the results forecast a mere 12 months ago.
Six Nobel laureates and
a former PM join the chorus of voices urging that climate change be on the agenda of the G8 / G20 meetings.
Turn your old phone into new trees at
http://plantmyphone.com/. (Help expand the network:
become a partner!)
The world is full of ‘disposable’ stuff, but
is that really such a good idea??