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Saving fuel is on every motorist mind whether locally or internationally. The recent fuel hike has indeed caused many people to shift the mindset of being unbothered about how they drive their vehicles to searching for ways and methods of conserving their mileages. The stretching of the dollar in relationship to fuel saving ways has become one of today's commercially viable businesses. Even websites that majored on fuel saving tips are receiving countless hits daily.

Most people would probably install one of the many new devices that are available in the marketplace, to stretch vehicle mileage. With the inventions of numerous and more cost affordable fuel saving devices and products, the motivation of purchasing hybrid vehicles to save fuel seems unwarranted. In fact, the price of hybrid vehicles has yet to be reduced considerably. Considering the amount of savings over the years of using a hybrid vehicle over using fuel saving devices and products, one need not be a great mathematician. The hybrid vehicle will never be able to superceed present day cost effective methods of fuel economizing.

However, despite of the many fuel savings devices and products, there is the better ways we use our vehicles in order to conserve fuel. We will explore some of the basic yet very effective methods that are within our control. Using these ways or methods, one can be very sure that it is most worthwhile to understand the way we drive our vehicles.

The first tipis, starting our car. Many of us unconsciously have the airconditioning switch still turned on, since we shut down our engine. Starting the car with the aircondition on creates engine stress ,drawing more fuel into the system. Similarly, we should allow the engine to be running stable before switching on the airconditioning. Addition to this tip is, we loved to rev our engine immediately upon hitting the ignition switch. Every revving on the accelerator is mere fuel waste

The second tip is not to immediately drive off but allow the engine to warm up and be stable first. No matter how in a hurry we may be, we can only be late a few minutes. A cold engine consumes a lot of fuel having to immediately work before being warmed up. The same goes for the human body.

The third tip is the way we operate the vehicle airconditioning. Putting the airconditioning lower would not save fuel at all. In fact, one should allow the airconditioning system to be set on the maximum. This will allow cooling of the temperature to be faster. After

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