Don’t Obama and McCain make a nice political circus. Now even Paris Hilton has gotten involved. I find that very highly amusing. The fact that Paris finally did something amusing is almost unfathomable to me as I’m not a fan of the silly little girl.
Anyway, on to the subject of gas prices and ways to save gas and money. Of course McCain thinks Barack is crazy. Lol, I think the McCain camp is crazy for the spin they tried to put on that one. Sheesh. Stupidity at it’s finest.
One tire down by just 4 #s can affect your gas mileage by 8%. McCain and the republicans are showing what damn fools they are by making jokes about tire pressure like it’s the Obama energy plan.
Two other very cheap things you can do to save gas is make sure at your next oil change you get 5w-30 oil and make sure your air filter is clean.
Changing your oil to 5w-30 will save you some gas but not as much as having your tires properly inflated.
A dirty air filter can cost you a ton of money. Depending on how dirty your air filter is you could get mileage up to 20% better than you are now. Even if it’s only a little dirty it still costs you money.
Say your vehicle averages 15 miles per gallon. If you make the simple and cheap changes mentioned above you could be getting A lot closer to 20 MPG than you are now. For the sake of keeping it simple lets say it’s 19.5 mpg so you save 4.5 mpg just by doing the above.
What’s that translate into money. If gas is $3.80 per gallon and you have a 20 gallon tank that means, if the tank is empty, it costs you 76.00 to fill up and you can go 300 miles before the tank is empty again.
If you make the changes above you could go 390 miles on the same gas or 90 miles farther on one tank of gas. Now divide 90 miles by the 15 mpg and you get 6 gallons. 6 gallons times 3.80 is 22.80.
A 22 dollar savings means that at $3.80 per gallon doing the above maintenance will save you 200 bucks between oil changes. Now if you think that spending 15 bucks for a new air filter isn’t really worth the savings I think you’d better reconsider.
McCain also said we could have oil from offshore drilling in months, not 7 years. Well come on John, prove that statement. How is that going to happen? It takes time to get a drilling platform out there, it takes time to drill the well and get it to a productive state and it takes time to get the mechanisms in place to get the oil to shore.
None of the oil companies are known for moving particularly fast, except when raising prices, so an explanation of how we can open offshore drilling and have oil from those wells in months instead of the 7 years that’s so often spoken about. McCain is going to have to prove it to me.
Me, I think I’ve gone fishing and I may stay fishing until after the elections. It’s turning into theater of the absurd. At least fishing is straightforward and the only spinning is done with a fishing reel.
Sheesh!