Fifteen Tricks to Save Gasoline

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Tricks to Save Gasoline - A Colombian average spends $6 million in gasoline to the year. If it saves 20%, every year could be thrown to the pocket $1.2 million. It sees here the form to make extraordinary savings in the account of gasoline.

The prices of the gasoline are increase and it is not known until where they will arrive. By this it becomes necessary that each takes measures to try to maximize the tanqueada one of the vehicle.

It buys gasoline in the morning, when the temperatures are low, this causes that the gasoline is denser.

For Manuel Montenegro, methodologic adviser of the Sectorial Table of the Transport of the SEINE, an automobile average in Colombia has a yield of 25 kilometers by gallon of gasoline. If he crosses 20,000 kilometers in a year, consumes more than 800 gallons to the year. If you take measures you could be saved until an annual 20%. In order to obtain it, it follows the following recommendations:

1. It maintains the vehicle perfectly synchronous.

2. It realises scheduled inspections of the general state of the vehicle.

3. When starting it is not necessary to warm up the motor of the car. When it is not in movement, gasoline is only wasted and a premature wearing down of the motor is caused.

4. It accelerates gradually, pressing with smoothness the pedal. To step on thoroughly produces it up to four times more consumption than if it does in moderate form.

5. It selects the speed of the cruise more adapted to its route and the conditions of traffic, and manténgala constant, most of the vehicles offers an optimal yield between 60/80 kilometers per hour.

6. If its car is of transmission manual it changes to a speed superior when system allows the motor it. The low speeds are designed to obtain a high push and a fast acceleration. In fourth or villa gasoline is saved.

7. It crosses stations on watch before buying, the prices can even vary between powerboats that sell the same mark.

8. It buys gasoline in the morning, when the temperatures are low, this causes that the gasoline is denser. The gasoline pumps measure and load according to the volume, not according to the densidad. In the morning, the volume that you buy you will be denser. It will be acquiring more solid gasoline than steam by the same money. If full you the deposit to noon, in the evening or at dusk, the liter of fuel will not be a liter exactly.

9. It uses the credit cards of the powerboats. Some offer a discount between a 5% and 10%, it uses if it to cancel in a single payment do not acquire interests to him and yes it saves the discount.

10. It turns the fuze of the pump when the finishing loading. If `escurre' can add up to 120 ml to its tank.

11.Cuando it fills the deposit, does not tighten the handle of the jet to the maximum. According to the pressure that is exerted on the handle, the speed of the jet can be slow, average or high. It always chooses the slowest way and will save more money. When spurting more slowly, less steam is created, and most of the spill becomes an effective plenty. All the hoses give back the steam to the tank. If full I deposit to the maximum tightening the handle a certain percentage of the precious liquid that enters I deposit is transformed into steam and returns by the hose of the jet to I deposit of the station.

12. It fills I deposit of the tank before this he lowers to half. While more fuel has in him I deposit, less air has in the same. The fuel evaporates more quickly than you think. The great deposits cistern of the refineries have floating ceilings in the interior, maintaining the separated air of the fuel, with the aim of maintaining the evaporation to the minimum.

13.No to fill the deposit when I know is filling up the tanks of the powerboat nor immediately later. If it arrives at the station on watch and it sees a tanker that is filled up the underground tanks of the same it finishes or them filling, it avoids, if it can, to tanquear then in this station. When filling up the tanks, remove the remaining fuel in the same and the sediments of the bottom. To if that the risk runs of refuelling combustible dirty.

14. When using the conditioned air system the fuel consumption is increased from a 10% to a 20%. In order to diminish this consumption, it abra glasses of ciérrelos the vehicle to remove the hot air and before igniting the conditioned air. Also it is important that periodically it reviews the packings of the doors and takes his car to a factory on watch specialized to give maintenance to the conditioned air.

15. It maintains a registry of his expenses in gasoline to control the consumption. This will also help to detect abnormalitys him in the yield of the vehicle. It considers that an automobile that requires refining can consume a 20% more of fuel.