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Driving Tips to Help Improve Fuel Efficiency

Driving can be costly at times, not only to your wallet and bottom line, but to the environment as well. Improving your fuel efficiency is a simple yet effective way to save yourself a little money and lower the volume of harmful emissions coming from your vehicle. Map Your Route Ahead of Time Figuring out […]

12 Ways to Improve Fuel Efficiency

Summer vacations, even day-to-day commutes and other travels, can become costly pretty quick. Between hotel expenses, food, gasoline, entertainment expenditures and souvenirs, taking out a significant loan to cover your planned adventures may not be out of the question. Fortunately, simple actions can be taken to reduce these costs. One of those actions involves improving your fuel […]

Automotive X PRIZE Hot and Heavy with Fuel Efficiency

When it comes to fuel efficiency, most people strive for the best. They want the most fuel efficient vehicle they can get…within their budget, of course. But sometimes affordable, high fuel efficiency vehicles seem to be few and far between. Luckily the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE is aiming to change all of that. The […]

Gasoline Tricks and Treats

  Image by ^riza^  Now that we are going to be heading into the holidays, I figured I’d give you a few tricks and treats you can use to make the most out of your vehicle’s gasoline consumption.  These tips can be used anytime actually whether gasoline prices are up or down or whether you are driving […]

Planning a Green Camping Trip

  Image by nsgbrown It’s the perfect time of the year to go camping, the kids are hopefully still off for summer vacation, you could really use some time off work or maybe you just want to spend some time in the great outdoors.  Camping is the perfect trip.  It’s low cost, family-friendly and if you […]

Biofriendly Cleaning Tips For Your Car

  Image by VirtualErn One of the things I always see are articles covering biofriendly cleaning tips for around the home.  What I haven’t seen much of are tips for cleaning your car.  Since most people spend hours a day in their car, you’d think they’d want to ensure their car was clean, smelled fresh […]

Are you wasting gasoline?

  Image by biofriendly   I’m sure you’ve noticed the price of gasoline is on the rise again.  The price for unleaded gas where I live in Southern California is right around $3.00/gallon whereas a little over two months ago (on April 16, 2009) it was “just” $2.25/gallon.  In two months it’s gone up about $0.75/gallon…that’s […]