Driving to cheapest gas-worth it?

In past posts, I’ve shared with you how you can find the gas station with the cheapest prices in your area– but is it really worth the drive? Enery Jeffreys, in writing about this topic at the Around Central Florida blog has a different perspective on all this- including info about “a slick site that helps determine if is worth the drive to save a few pennies.” The site is called Gas Edge of Saddle River, New Jersey, created by Mark Roth, an Internet Marketer.

About Emery- He as about 30 years experience as a writer and editor — including serving as a reporter and editor at United Press International.

New pump-less-gas linkedin group

Ever heard of linkedin? If not, you should check it out! Linked in is a great way to network with other people, connect with people you don’t know directly, get answers to questions and much more.

You should also know that I just created a special Pump-Less-Gas linked in group where people in the linked in community can exchange ideas and information. You can find the new group here- LinkedIn Pump-Less-Gas group.

Obama Tire Guage Energy Plan

Barack Obama just suggested that Americans can help conserve energy by inflating their tires. The McCain campaign is making a bit of a joke from this suggestion. In fact, this morning the McCain campaign distributed tire pressure guages to reporers and emailed supporters offering them “Obama Energy Plan” tire pressure guages if they donate $25.

Is this whole tie pressure bit just a lot of hot air? Not really…although it won’t be a major solution to our energy problem, little things do help. Keeping tires inflated properly can improve gas mileage 3-4% resulting in a savings of about twelve cents a gallon, according to the overnment’sd website www.fueleconomy.gov

According to the Energy Information Administration, in the US we consume 9,286,000 barrels/day (390 million gallons/day) of gasoline. Three percent of that consumption is a savings of 11.7 million gallons a day. Here’s some interesting related stats:

Consumers would spend 46.8 million dollars less a day for gas (assuming $4 per gallon price)..so that’s 1.7 billion dollars a year less that consumers would be spending on gas that could be spent elsewhere in the economy! Interesting numbers…the fact is that we’re consuming so much oil that even a minor savings can mean a substantial dollar impact!

No, I think Obama’s point about inflating our tires was presented incorrectly (at least in tone) as a major solution to our problem, but it has a bigger dollar impact than many of us might think! Don’t these dollar numbers surprise you? Of course, to get 100% of Americans to inflate their tires (or do anything) is unrealistic..but even if half of the population did it, the impact could still be helpful.