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102. Get compensated! If you travel a lot as a part of your job, you may be able to convince your employer to pay for your gas expenses.

103. Work less if you can! Try convincing your employer to let you work four 10-hour days instead of five 8-hour days.

104. Work from home! If you are self-employed, maybe you can turn your home into your office as well.

105. Move closer to your job or school! This may be a bit of a big move, but for some, it's well worth it. Let's say that your vehicle gets 15 mpg, and you have to pay $4 per gallon at the pump. If you save 40 miles of driving a day, 5 times a week, that's a total savings of $10.66 a day, $53.33 a week, or $2,773.33 a year. And to think that some people are traveling even more than that with less mileage and have to pay more per gallon on gas. What a waste!

106. Find a job closer to you! Same thing. If you can't move homes, maybe you can think about getting a closer job.

107. Take online courses! Instead of going to a school campus for all your courses, you may be able to take courses online.

108. Cook at home! Reduce the amount of times you go out to eat every week and stay at home.

109. Avoid driving on lunch breaks! Instead of driving from work or the school campus every day to get lunch, try bringing your lunch or walk to a place nearby.

110. Avoid promotional sales on food! Sometimes we rush out to get a great deal on food, not realizing that we just spent the same amount on gas.

111. Avoid going to the gym! Unless it's within walking distance (which is exercise in itself), maybe you'd be better off getting some home equipment! In the long run, you'll be saving on monthly or yearly fees as well.

112. Save money in other areas! If you've done everything you want to do on this list and still want to save more money, remember that cutting back on your other bills will free up some money for fuel as well!

113. et feedback! Feedback is absolutely critical to improving driving habits. Tracking your fuel consumption in a logbook and using fuel consumption displays can help give you the feedback you need. Tank-to-tank monitoring of your consumption is not good enough. You need instrumentation that lets you reset the readout at will so you can track individual trips, or even portions of trips you regularly travel.

114. Attend a defensive driving class! They're motivating, might help you save on insurance, and you might get some more ideas on saving gas that aren't listed here.

115. Make fuel economy a game! Competing against yourself or others to get the best possible fuel economy is a great way to get motivated to try harder.

116. Don't forget about gas saving tips! Print this list out and put it in your vehicle so that passengers can remind you of them.

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