Greenify Your Driving Habits

There are a few things you can do to greenify your vehicles fuel-efficiency. We are constantly emmiting harmful CO2 chemicals into our atmosphere but we can help curb that by changing a few of our driving habits. The first thing I would suggest is getting a hybrid just for puttering around town, doing the day to day stuff. However, not everyone has the means to buy a new car. So, for the rest of us try adopting some new driving habits if you don't do them already.

Avoid accelerating too fast. If your vehicle has a tachometer, try to keep the RPM under 2 or 3, depending on the make and model.
Avoid breaking too fast. Ease into your breaks if possible to avoid unneeded break wear. Riding the breaks over-works the engines with automatic transmissions. Standards will just stall on you (good times).

For more tips check out the other posts I've written about fuel-efficiency here at Hugg.ca

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Joshy 79 said:

wow,those are some pretty handy tricks!

Posted at 03:55 PM, on August 12 2007

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