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Changing Your Parking Habits to improve Gas Mileage |
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Written by Scott Siegel
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Thursday, 22 November 2007 14:46 |
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You can improve your gas mileage just by changing the way you park your car. It is one of the many easy and simple things you can do to increase your fuel mileage.
Normally this is what you do when pulling into a parking lot. You enter the lot and immediately head for the parking spaces nearest to the entrance to the mall or the store where you are going to shop. Usually there are not any parking spaces available near the entrance since everyone looks for the nearest spots like you.
Since you did not find any spaces initially you drive up and down the closest rows to see if you can find a parking place that is reasonably close to the entrance or you sit in one place and wait for a parking space to open up.
All of these habits will cost you fuel economy and money. You are running your engine but not moving when you sit and wait to see if any parking spaces will become available. When you are sitting and idling like that you are getting zero miles per gallon.
When you slowly cruise up and down the parking rows near the entrance you are burning gas. When you are moving slowly you are getting very poor gas mileage. As you slow down and stop at spaces that might open up, or if you stop behind another car that is stopped, now you are idling and getting zero miles per gallon.
If you think that a few seconds of extra idling is not going to use much fuel, think again. If you only spend 1 minute a day waiting for a parking space then you would roughly be burning fuel for 30 minutes or a half hour each month.
One half hour of burning fuel a month is the equivalent of burning fuel an extra 6 hours per year. Would you ever leave your car sitting and idling for six hours doing nothing but burning fuel? Absolutely not. But in essence you are letting your car sit and idle for 6 hours if your parking habits involve always looking for the closest parking space.
In what way can you change your habits to prevent this wasteful burning of gas? You can improve gas mileage and stop burning extra fuel with this very simple and very easy solution. Your goal should be to park far away from the store or mall instead of trying to park as close as you can. The farther away from the entrance you go, the more empty parking spaces you will find. If you head to the parking rows far from the entrance, as soon as you enter the parking lot, you should find a parking place right away.
By parking far away, you save all the gas you would have burned waiting and looking for a close in parking space. Not only will you improve gas mileage and save money but you will get a little extra exercise by walking the extra distance to the store entrance. It's a win for your pocket book and a win for your body.
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About the Author:
Scott Siegel has written a 143 page book of industry insider secrets on saving gas and money at the pump (beatthegaspump.com). Visit us to learn how you can get better gas mileage. Find out how to increase gas mileage. This article is available as a unique content article with free reprint rights.
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