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The Latest Gas Saving Articles from GasPredictor.comImportant Guidelines on Maintaining Your Hybrid Car Hybrid Cars have an edge over conventional cars and are therefore more expensive than the latter. Also, unlike normal cars, hybrid cars do not need much maintenance on their components. However, that does not mean that a hybrid car does not need any maintenance at all. As the components, especially the batteries, are very costly, it is necessary for you to know the ways of maintaining your hybrid car. Financial Benefits of Owning a Hybrid As more and more car manufacturers offer both hybrid only cars (like the Prius) and hybrid versions of already popular cars (like the hybrid Honda Civic), more car buyers are looking to switch from their traditional gas-only cars to a hybrid. The thing stopping many people from doing this, however, is the fact that hybrids typically cost more than their gas-only counterparts. Because of that, here are some of the financial benefits of owning a hybrid that can help to off-set the increased upfront cost of owning one. Save Money - Top 7 Ways to Save Money With Your Auto Let's face it, our cars, trucks and SUV's are money suckers. Some folks even feel that they need to sell their auto simply because it is too expensive to maintain. I hope these tips will allow you to keep your vehicle and put extra dollars in your pocket every month. Saving Gas with a Tonneau Cover Thinking about trading the old pickup for something more economical? Maybe all you need to do is to make the truck you have more fuel-efficient. A tonneau cover can do that, and provide several other benefits as well! How Does an Air Filter Work? Air filters can make a huge difference in the life and the performance of an engine. It is an essential component of the air intake system and is tasked with trapping any dirt or debris in the air entering the intake system. It is important that dirt is not allowed to enter the engine as it can cause a great deal of damage or even kill your power plant. Four Reasons to Keep Track of Your Gas Mileage You know it's a good idea to check your car's gas mileage performance once in a while, but all the time? Yes, you really should monitor your gas mileage all the time, for four good reasons. How to Measure Your Gas Mileage Gas mileage is on just about everyone's minds these days, but how exactly do you measure it? It sounds simple, but it does require a little thought and planning, as this article explains. Gas Coupons - Why You Should Use Them Many people are not taking vacations this year because of the economy and the high cost of gasoline. It does not seem feasible to have to pay out more for the gas in your vehicle than you would for say your motel room or food to go on vacation. That is why many resorts are offering vacationers the opportunity to take vacation by giving them gas coupons. Two Popular Fuel Efficiency Ideas - Myth Or Truth? It seems there are always ideas floating around about ways to save gas and improve fuel efficiency. Some of these ideas seem plausible while others appear to be downright ludicrous. Considering the high price of gasoline these days, most consumers are willing to try just about anything in order to get more bang for their buck at the gas pump. Five Tips to Keep Your Car Tyres in Good Condition Driving carefully by not over accelerating, braking hard and sharp corning is the best way to extend the life of your car tyres. This article has five other tips to keep your car tyres in good condition. Economy Beyond Gas: Three Things You Can Do to Make Your Car's Tires Last Longer You must replace your car's tires every so many miles, and there's nothing you can do about it, is there? Wrong! Here are three ways you can make those tires last much longer, and so save money on your driving budget. Economy Beyond Gas: Three Things You Can Do to Save Money on Your Car's Brakes Sure, you can stretch your budget a bit by driving carefully to get the best fuel economy from your car, but gas is not the only cost of operating your car. Here are three things you can do to make your car's brakes last longer, and so save money on this routine maintenance item. Increase Horsepower With an Automobile Performance Chip This article discusses the benefits of an automobile performance chips in terms of increased horsepower, better fuel utilization and enhanced engine performance. Most modern cars now come equipped with a power programmable chip, also known as a performance chip which is located in the ECU or electronic control unit. This computer chip can be easily programmed by specifying certain parameters and thus optimizing operation of the engine. As a result of this optimization you car experiences increased horsepower and better fuel utilization. That Scary Check Engine Light What to do when a check engine function light appears. With simple logic the incident does not have to be traumatic as you will see. Carpooling - What's the Big Deal? As if the extra nap wasn't enough, you are going to spend less money when you ride-share. In many cases, tolls are waived for carpoolers using HOV lanes, adding to money savings. Saving Gas Even though the price of a gallon of gas has gone down incredibly quick to under $2 over the past couple of months, you can never be too sure about when it is going to rise back up over $3 again. So, here we will provide you road warriors with some gas saving tips. Hopefully these tips will help you save gas and keep the amount of times you fill your tank up over the span of a month to a minimum depending on how much you drive each day to and from work or school. Predicting Gas Prices: Three Factors to Watch Wouldn't you love to be able to predict the retail price of gasoline? But it seems to be completely unpredictable. There's no way to know what the price of gas will be tomorrow, is there? Yes, there is. And this article will show you three things you can keep an eye on in order to anticipate future changes. Gas-Saving Gizmos and the Placebo Effect: Why People Claim Real Gas Savings from Methods that Can't Possibly Work People often claim to realize significant improvements in their cars' fuel economy using completely bogus methods. Don't just laugh at them. You can learn something important from these preposterous claims. The Fuel Economy Check List You want to save money on gas but you just don't know how. This easy check list will get you started on your road to financial fuel freedom. Be Savvy on Saving Fuel - Try These Techniques For Getting More Miles Per Gallon How about getting more miles per gallon the easy way? Anything easy sounds great. Here are two simple ways of getting more miles per gallon, and two not-so-simple ways. As you can imagine, the easy stuff has limited return on investment, and the more difficult ways also have the greatest potential for improved miles per gallon and using less gas. The Fallacy of Average Gasoline Prices: Why Widely Cited Sources are Often Misleading Every news outlet on TV, Internet, and in print tells you about movements and trends in the average price of gasoline. But how is the "average" calculated, and what does it really mean? This article will shed some light on that question, and show you why it matters, even though you never thought about it before. Save Money On Gas - The Octane Factor With the price of gas these days (over $3.00 US per gallon at the time of this writing) most people are feeling the economic pinch and wondering what they can do to trim their gas costs. This article presents one of several ways to get as many miles per buck as possible. GasPredictor.com Press ReleasesGasPredictor.com Predicts Large Price Increases in Northeast Before Easter, 4/8/2008 Double-digit price increases likely this week from New England to Minnesota, according to GasPredictor.com GasPredictor.com Announces New Lower Subscription Prices, Other Changes, 4/7/2008 GasPredictor.com is making many changes to the price and publication schedule of their Gas Predictor Newsletter as a result of analysis of their first 100 predictions. GasPredictor.com Correctly Predicts Major Price Jump in Chicago, 3/25/2008 Retail gasoline prices rose thirteen cents per gallon in Chicago today, just as GasPredictor.com said they would. Similar jumps are coming to other cities this week. GasPredictor.com Changes Web Publication Schedule, 3/24/2008 Forecasts of retail gasoline prices for the United States will be available on the Web seven hours in advance, instead of the previous schedule of 19 hours in advance, in order to enhance the value of advance information provided to subscribers via e-mail. GasPredictor.com Announces Chicago Edition of Gas Predictor Newsletter, 3/4/2008 Forecasts of the next day's gas prices in Chicago, Illinois, will be available via e-mail commencing Monday, March 9, in addition to the National Gas Predictor newsletter already being published every day. Local editions are also published for four other cities, and more are coming every month. GasPredictor.com Announces Houston Edition of Gas Predictor Newsletter, 3/4/2008 Forecasts of the next day's gas prices in Houston, Texas, will be available via e-mail commencing Monday, March 9, in addition to the National Gas Predictor newsletter already being published every day. Local editions are also published for four other cities, and more are coming every month. GasPredictor.com Announces Atlanta Edition of Gas Predictor Newsletter, 2/11/2008 Forecasts of the next day's gas prices in Atlanta, Georgia, will be available via e-mail commencing Tuesday, February 17, in addition to the National Gas Predictor newsletter already being published every day. Local editions are also published for two other cities, and more are coming every month. GasPredictor.com Announces Raleigh, NC, Edition of Gas Predictor Newsletter, 2/11/2008 Forecasts of the next day's gas prices in Raleigh, North Carolina, will be available via e-mail commencing Tuesday, February 17, in addition to the National Gas Predictor newsletter already being published every day. Local editions are also published for two other cities, and more are coming every month. GasPredictor.com Announces First Local Edition of Gas Predictor Newsletter, 1/6/2008 Forecasts of the next day's gas prices in Nashua, New Hampshire, will be available via e-mail commencing Monday, January 12, in addition to the National Gas Predictor newsletter already being published every day. GasPredictor.com has Perfect Record for 2008, 12/31/2008 Every daily prediction of gasoline prices by GasPredictor.com in 2008 has been correct. GasPredictor.com Announces New Lower Subscription Rates, 12/29/2008 All annual subscription prices reduced by 50% effective 1/1/2009. Quarterly rates unchanged from previously announced discount rates. GasPredictor.com Predicts Gas Prices In Freefall, 12/24/2008 Downward pressures on U.S. retail gasoline prices are the strongest they have been all year, and prices will plummet between Christmas and New Years, but probably not beyond, according to GasPredictor.com GasPredictor.com Claims Successful Forecast of Rising Gas Prices, 12/15/2008 Today's reported price increase, the first in three months, was predicted on Friday, 12/12/2008 in GasPredictor.com's subscription newsletters. GasPredictor.com Announces Quarterly Subscriptions, 12/11/2008 13-Week Subscriptions to the Gas Forecast Newsletter available for as little as $1.39. GasPredictor.com Announces 2/3 Off Subscriptions, 12/03/2008 Subscriptions to the Gas Forecast Newsletter available for as little as $2.67 through December only. Falling Gas Prices End This Week, GasPredictor.com Declares, 11/22/2008 GasPredictor.com forecasts that gas prices will stop declining just before Thanksgiving. GasPredictor.com Announces Limited Subscription Availability, 11/18/2008 Subscriptions to GasPredictor.com's Gas Forecast Newsletter to be strictly limited. |