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Improve Gas Mileage by Changing Your Parking Habits

By: Scott Siegel

You can improve your gas mileage just by changing the way you park your car. It is one of the many easy and simple things you can do to increase your fuel mileage.

Normally this is what you do when pulling into a parking lot. You enter the lot and immediately head for the parking spaces nearest to the entrance to the mall or the store where you are going to shop. Usually there are not any parking spaces available near the entrance since everyone looks for the nearest spots like you.

Now you do one of two things, you either sit and wait for a few minutes to see if anyone will be pulling out of spaces near the entrance, or you drive up and down the closest rows to see if you can find a spot that is still fairly close to the entrance.

All of these habits will cost you fuel economy and money. You are running your engine but not moving when you sit and wait to see if any parking spaces will become available. When you are sitting and idling like that you are getting zero miles per gallon.

When you slowly cruise up and down the parking rows near the entrance you are burning gas. When you are moving slowly you are getting very poor gas mileage. As you slow down and stop at spaces that might open up, or if you stop behind another car that is stopped, now you are idling and getting zero miles per gallon.

If you think that a few seconds of extra idling is not going to use much fuel, think again. If you only spend 1 minute a day waiting for a parking space then you would roughly be burning fuel for 30 minutes or a half hour each month.

At 30 minutes per month, you would be unnecessarily burning gas the equivalent of 6 hours per year. Now, would you ever consider leaving your car sit and idle in your driveway for six hours burning gas? Of course not. But that is exactly what you are doing with your current parking habits.

What is the solution to all of this wasted gas? How can you improve gas mileage by changing parking habits? Very simple, park far away from the store or mall entrance. The farther from the entrance you go the more empty parking spaces there are. Chances are that if you, immediately upon entering the parking lot, go to the rows far from the entrance, you will find a place to park right away.

By parking far away, you save all the gas you would have burned waiting and looking for a close in parking space. Not only will you improve gas mileage and save money but you will get a little extra exercise by walking the extra distance to the store entrance. It's a win for your pocket book and a win for your body.

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Scott Siegel is the author of a 143 page manual of industry insider secrets on saving gas and money at the pump (beatthegaspump.com). Visit us to discover how you can get better gas mileage. Find out how to increase gas mileage.




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