Try to plan trips to the store so that you can do as much as your time will allow without having to make multiple needless trips. Plan to visit several stops per outing rather than store home store home several times in one day, or two days or what have you. Try and stop on the way home from work rather than going home first. A gallon or two here and there times a few million people, per day, wow that's a lot of fuel we just saved.

IN YOUR AUTOMOBILE:

1. Trying to drive faster than the flow of traffic when it is thick and congested is a waste of time, and fuel. Constant acceleration and braking wastes gas. Driving at a constant speed can get you up to 33% better mileage. Conservative driving can save you up to $1.35 per gallon. Watch the traffic lights, flow of traffic,  vehicles changing lanes and leaving and entering the roadway in front of you to help you maintain as constant of a speed as is possible. TIP: Regaining flow of traffic speed from still rolling instead of completely stopped also saves gas. Just don't be so extreme as to obstruct the normal flow of traffic as this will just defeat anything your trying to gain.
2. Keeping your tires properly inflated can help save you around .12 cents per gallon. Check the owner's manual or your tire store for proper psi for better gas mileage, improved road handling safety, and longer life of your tires.
3. Making sure your air filter is clean and not clogged up can save you up to .41 cents per gallon and help increase the life of your engine.
4. Gas mileage decreases rapidly over 60 mph at a rate of costing .30 cents more for every 5 mph over 60.
5. Keeping your oil changed every 3,000 miles and using the proper oil can save toy up to .06 cents per gallon.
6. Reports found that vehicles idling  in the US had a cost of $78 billion in lost gallons.
7. Make sure your gas cap fits properly. Damaged, loose, and missing gas caps can lose your gas to vapor costing you gallons of gas per year.
8. For highway driving use your cruise control and overdrive for optimal mileage. But remember if you start feeling drowsy at the wheel first thing to do is turn off the cruise control then immediately find a place to stop and take a break.



Conserving for the Now and Future

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  If your wondering why online shopping and the topic of conserving energy are together on the same website, I'll try to explain my concept. It's simple really. For every gallon of fuel you can save by going to the store to shop and purchase an item, some good has been accomplished. It's not just the gallon of gas you are saving though. There will be other places where fuel is going to be saved. Not to mention you may save some time,, or be able to browse, shop, compare prices, and purchase when it is more comfortable for you to do. And like right now as this is being written, it's pouring down rain outside. Where would you rather be right now ? Caught out in the elements or in the comfort of your home. Save the nice weather for important things like grilling and/or going to the beach or lake.Or, ugh, cutting the grass.

  Here are some tips and ideas on conserving energy. For anyone and everyone that may not be aware, almost every source of energy around us has been generated using some type of fuel. Fuel being gasoline, diesel, propane or any of the natural gases, coal, and some others. No need to go further into detail as I hope you understand the basic idea.
  Some exceptions are wind power and water power and perhaps some others such as newer hybrid vehicles. Some have been being used for some time and are more easily applied in different regions so it does depend on where you live as far as how the electric power for your home or places of business are being generated.
  Regardless, we all are surrounded by fossil fuel burning sources of energy of some type. Trains, airplanes and automotive vehicles. So what is the point already right? (-8
  I just want to say that I think that however little, or however much, that anyone and everyone can do in a combined effort to reduce the amount of energy used, it will help in the long haul of our global worlds future.


And personally, right now, I'd like to see crude oil consumption cut down so much that the producers and such have to cut back on the production, wouldn't that be great? Give them some time to take a break or vacation or something and think about what these price increases are doing to the global economy.  Maybe even forcing the prices back down. I could go on and on about how the effect of the cost of the main supply of energy, (crude oil) effects all of the consumer goods in the market that are purchased and used. How and why? Because it ALL has to be manufactured, processed, packed, and/or packaged and transported. And any and all of these procedures uses some type of fuel processed from the precious barrel of crude oil.

  One more approach at putting this into perspective. If every household saved the equilvelant of energy used to supply a light bulb for say a year, how many less pounds of coal would not have to be delivered to the power plant to produce that saved amount of energy, thus using less fuel to move the lesser amount of coal. This is just a hypothetical example with no research done or statistics found. I don't know what the actual amount of fuel consumption it takes to produce the electricity for one light bulb for a year. The point here is to do what we can when we can as often as we can.

ENERGY SAVING TIPS LIST:
AT HOME:

  Turn off lights, tv's and anything else that doesn't need to be on when you leave the room to spend time elsewhere. Televisions and stereos are solid state, not tubes anymore, they don't have to 'warm-up'.
In the hot summer months use your fans to circulate the air in remote rooms, ( such as a bedroom or TV room ) while occupied to help keep you cooler.
Consider which areas of your home where it would benefit to have fans on during the hottest hours of the day to help your air conditioning system cool your home by circulating the air such as areas close to the air return. 
Thermostat settings are said to be best for optimal savings at 78 degrees Farenheit. In some regions you may definately need fans to feel comfortable at this setting. In the same respect, use the fans in combination with a degree or two cooler to help circulate the air in your home so the air conditioner doesn't have to work as much. Example: have a fan blowing air in the direction of the air return. If the thermostat is in an area where the airflow past it may be closed off by closed bedroom doors for instance, place a fan blowing not directly on but in the general direction of the thermostat.
Consider hanging out clothes instead of using the dryer, if it is practical for you. Should definately consider it for very small loads. That is where the small clothes hanging racks come in handy.

PLANNING A LITTLE AHEAD CAN HELP TO CARRY OUT SOME OF THE SUGGESTIONS FOUND HERE,

  Wash dishes by hand when it's possible. Don't run the water continually while washing. Wash several first with the water off and then rinse them as a group, only running the water when it is being utilized.
Do the same when brushing your teeth.
Always use a nozzle on the hose when washing your vehicles or anything else you are washing and rinsing.
Follow the watering guidelines for your community.
Never thought of water in your home as using energy? Water treatment, pumps to move the water, whether your own well or city furnished. Unless you have a natural flowing well, energy is used, and of course heating the water uses energy.