Tips on How to Save Money on Gas
If there is anyone out there who can help you save money on gas, it has to be GasBuddy – a website that’s been in this business for more than 10 years and that has a subscriber base in the millions. The website basically gets its millions of users to post the gas prices they find at their local outlets wherever they may be in the country a the time. As an incentive to members to post what they see, they give away points and there is a weekly $250 sweepstakes prize. All you really need to do is use the app or the website to find the prices of any gas station in your ZIP code area or any other. They list prices for every single part of the country as well as Canada. Using these tips, you can easily find a place that sells gas at 25 cents less than any place you know of usually.
So you’re using GasBuddy, and you find that there’s an out-of-the-way gas station that you would actually have to spend 20 minutes driving to. You’re tempted to go because they offer you 40 cents off a gallon of gas. Would it make any sense driving there? Or would you spend as much money on gas driving there as you would save on gas filling up at their pump? That’s where the calculator on the BankRate website at http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/auto/gas-price-calculator.aspx will help you out. You just need to plug in the numbers and have the calculator work out how much exactly you’ll save on gas minus what you’ll spend driving there and back.
Saving money at the gas pump is only one way to save money on gas. You also need to know how well your car is doing and if there’s anything you can do to tighten up your car’s fuel efficiency numbers. That’s what GasHog is all about. It’s a dollar-app that’s available for the iPhone, that tries to keep track of how many MPG you get out of each gas fill-up. It’s a pretty useful tool.
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