Saving Fuel with Green Living is Not Difficult

Are you one of those people who think that their whole lifestyle must be altered totally to have any impact on the environment? Regrettably, this mistaken belief that little changes don't count leads, all too often, to doing just nada. They are wrong, naturally; doing something is always better than doing nothing. Below are a couple of tips from environmental experts that can make a big difference.

People love their cars, but if they could all just take a break from them for a certain amount of time every week, what a great difference it would make. Studies show that individuals hop in their cars roughly 2000 times every year for round trips of less than 2 miles. That's at least 5 times a day. Apparently, any number of such trips could have been accomplished on a bicycle or even on foot? Reducing the number of these quick car trips would have a major effect on helping to bring down toxic fuel emissions. If you are not able to walk or ride a bike, carpooling from time to time would be a huge help. Think about 7 people riding together in a van against 7 people driving 7 autos to accomplish the same things; what a reduction in pollution we would enjoy. Consider a city bus carrying forty passengers compared to 40 vehicles with one driver. Common sense tells you that a great deal of emissions could be eliminated by getting single driver cars off of the roads.

To a Martian, America's number one interest would appear to be wasting fuel and energy. Individuals waste a lot of fuel just sitting in their cars with the engine idling. (This involves inhaling large amounts of exhaust pollution, too.) When you are waiting for somebody, you really need to turn your car off. If you are going to be sitting in traffic for over ten seconds, turn off your car. Have you observed the amount of pollution being given out when you are in a traffic jam? In addition, if you need to get going on a cold morning, let your car warm up while driving rather than letting it just sit there idling. It's the same with sitting in a drive thru, just find a parking space and go inside to buy your food.

All of these are great ways to conserve fuel when driving your vehicle. Another easy, little thing you can do is minimize your lead-footing the gas pedal. Reducing speed increases your miles per gallon of fuel, also. Doing regular engine maintenance helps a lot, too; your vehicle will run more efficiently and get better gas mileage. Changing the oil regularly, and keeping fresh oil and filters in place are superb ideas also. If you don't keep your tires properly inflated, you'll use a great deal of petrol for no good reason.

These are only a couple of of the little things you can do to lesen your fuel consumption. These things are all simple, and add to your desire to live green. You need to realize that living green is not that tough to do.