We've decided to:
- start keeping a fuel and trip log book in the car
- buy fuel once a week, and only spend a set amount, rather than just filling up whenever we are low. This helps us to keep tabs on how much we are using, and stick to a fuel budget.
- we also use public transport where possible, and walk when we can. The exercise is welcome, and we just read books on PT, taking the extra travelling time as rest time.

in June

Keep your tires air pressure in check!

You can safely run the front tires @ 35-38 psi, and the rear tires @ 32-35 psi on your daily driver vehicle. This is slightly more than the sticker on the door jamb / glove box recommends, but you will not be hurting anything by doing so. Only the ride comfort will suffer a little. The tires rolling resistance will be reduced, thus, you will save fuel. Also, use a good quality, low viscosity grade oil in the engine. The newer low viscosisty oils take less power to pump through the engine, thus saving fuel. Have the wheel alignment checked at least twice a year. Again, less rolling resistence saves fuel, and you also save on tire wear. Keep those filters changed too. If everybody kept their vehicles maintained on a regular basis, there's really no telling how much fuel and/or crude oil we would all be saving.

in July

I also use a navigation system to not waste time looking fo the destination but have found that tomtom (but also Google Maps) not always uses the most energy efficient way to get there. We drove from N. Vermont to Halifax a few weeks ago and TT planned a route that used a lot of freeway, which took us way south first. By taking a more straight and scenic way, we saved about 100 miles and had better even better mileage than we would have on the freeway. It took us less than an hour more traveltime.

in August