In early Aug of ‘08, a Southern California paper quoted a young girl who noted a publicized cost of $3.97 a gallon for gas as pronouncing, "Now isn’t that a pleasant price?"

But; Why in the world would she say such a thing?

The actuality is that in the last half a year she had seen the price at the pump smash thru what gurus had called the "$4 barrier" and rocket to as high as $5.39 in her area. A price per gallon with a 3 as the first number looked very good to her and others.

US citizens need to get wise and find out about fuel savings.

The reality is that the only possible way to get fuel savings is to reduce gas use, in the near term, it is only a decline in demand that would have an effect on both the cost of gasoline and its source, a barrel of oil. There are a number of resources available on the internet to provide us a plethora of information about steps we are able to take to achieve fuel savings.

Some fuel savings ideas are from "entrepreneurs" letting you know about running your auto on water and others from numerous AAA Clubs, provide links to info from executive and school sources. The data available goes from common sense to just plain brilliant. Common-sense tells us that slowing down will give us fuel savings. The routing system of UPS to avoid time in left turn lanes is clever ghat way too. It plays into one the best suggestions for fuel savings and cash.

If many thousands of northern Americans started to practice the art of trip consolidation and route planning, their fuel savings would be noticeable.

Instead of a trip to food shop one day, a visit to the cleaners the next and the flick rental store the day after, pool these jobs and do them all on one day in one trip. An example of fuel saving was a visit to shop for "necessities" and publicized bargains. One or two minutes of planning laid out a visit to Smash Hit Store , Longs Drug, Lowes, Sprouts Market, Vons Store and the Shell Station. There had been only 1 wait in a left turn lane and the auto was back in the garage in a little over 2 hours. 5 days of films, sale and voucher groceries, prescriptions, a new coffee maker and gas and an auto wash covered in one loop out and back from the drive. Try setting a goal for fuel savings like "we will cut the amount of times each week the vehicle leaves the garage by 50%" and then utilize trip consolidation and route planning to maximise each trip and find out about saving gas and cash.