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DOE Changing Its Tune, Says Record High Gas Prices Possible
2007-04-20 00:00:00
Nearly a month after declaring that we should expect to see slightly lower gas prices this summer, the head of Department of Energy has backed off that assertion and now believes that we might break our record high average gasoline price. According to an article published by Boston.com, Energy Chief Samuel Bodman believes that a slight ...
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ConocoPhillips and Tysons Teamup to Create Biodiesel Fuel
2007-04-19 00:00:00
It looks like biodiesel may be the alternative fuel of the future if Conoco Phillips and Tysons have anything to say about it. According to a report published on CNN.com, the two giant corporations have planned a partnership that will allow the two companies to create millions of gallons of biodiesel fuel each year. This agreement seems to ...
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What Your Driver’s Ed Teacher Would Say About Gas Mileage
2007-04-19 00:00:00
Remember back in high school, when your driver’s ed teacher would ramble on, talking about important things that you were sure you already knew?  Turns out, we probably should have paid better attention because a lot of the things he or she talked about go a long way towards helping us reduce our gasoline ...
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Gas Prices Reach Highest Levels Since August
2007-04-17 00:00:00
Thanks to increasing demand and supply shortages caused by problems at several refineries, the national average gas price for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel jumped a little over 7 cents during the past week and now stands at $2.88 per gallon. To add insult to injury, current gas prices are roughly 10 cents higher ...
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Top 5 Ways You’re Needlessly Adding Weight to Your Car
2007-04-16 00:00:00
One of the simplest ways for you to increase your car’s gas mileage is to reduce all of the excess weight you’re carrying around.  According to FuelEconomy.gov for every extra 100 pounds you carry around in your car, you’ll reduce its gas mileage by 2%. So, with that being said, what extra things are you ...
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25% of Primary Vehicles Get Better Than 30 MPG
2007-04-14 00:00:00
So, do you want the good news first, or do you want the bad news first? Because this is a rhetorical question, I’ll go ahead and start off with the good news: according to a recent poll on Daily Fuel Economy Tip, 25% of us have primary vehicles that get better than 30 miles per ...
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Gas Prices Continue to Climb, Little Relief in Site
2007-04-13 00:00:00
Despite what many people (ahem, the Federal Government) would you like you to believe, we’re not going to see a drop in gas prices and, more than likely, we’re going to pay a lot more this summer than what we paid last summer. Don’t get me wrong, I hope that the Department of Energy is ...
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DOE Reiterates Stance on Sub $3 Gas Prices
2007-04-12 00:00:00
Despite the unseasonably early jump in gas prices - which are up nearly 30% since the end of January - the Department of Energy has reiterated its believe that this summer’s average gas price will actually be less than what we paid last summer. According to NPR’s Morning Addition, the Department of Energy believes that ...
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Why $5 or $6 Gas Won’t Deter You From Driving
2007-04-11 00:00:00
At first glance, this post doesn’t seem to make much sense, especially since yesterday I wrote an article about how nearly 75% of people stated that they would alter their summer travel plans if gasoline were to get up to $4 per gallon. Don’t get me wrong, I think that if gas prices were to ...
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Would $4 Gas Change Your Summer Travel Plans?
2007-04-10 00:00:00
It’s no secret that gas prices are unusually high for this time of year and that they’re going to continue to rise throughout the summer’s peak driving season.  How high will they go?  While nobody knows for sure, several analysts are predicting that before this summer is over, the national average gas price will ...
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Gas Attendants Starting to Catch Flack
2007-04-09 00:00:00
Thanks to the nearly 27% jump in gas prices since the end of January, it seems most drivers are becoming increasingly frustrated with the amount of money that they have to pay to fill their car’s tank. Unfortunately, it seems more and more people are needlessly taking out their frustrations on the people who make ...
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Where Do Gas Prices Go From Here?
2007-04-07 04:54:00
Now that the world has had time to breathe a collective sigh of relief after the very peaceful and amicable resolution to the “Iran Hostage Crisis - Part II” gas prices will start to fall and ultimately this summer won’t be as bad as what we experienced last year… right? Not according to many analysts, some of whom are predicting $4 gas in the very near future, which would shatter the record highs set last summer. In an article published on ABCNews.com, Phil Flynn, vice president and trading analyst for Alaron Trading, stated the following: “Things are looking pretty bad for the upcoming summer driving season.  This is the time of year we’re supposed to be building supplies, but it seems like the refiners just can’t get ahead of what has been very, very strong demand.  Everyone asks me, will we see $4 a gallon?  And the answer is, there is a strong possibility we may see $4 a gallon.” This seems to be a pretty far cry from what the ...
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Top 5 Easiest Ways to Cut Back on Driving and Gasoline Consumption
2007-04-06 00:00:00
I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to realize that the less you drive the less gasoline you’re going to waste.  Unfortunately, many of us believe that if we need to go somewhere or get something that we need to get in our car, when in reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Don’t ...
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Simple Things You Can do in Your Driveway to Get Better Gas Mileage
2007-04-05 00:00:00
For those of us who enjoy working on our cars (or don’t particularly enjoy it but know that it’s a necessary evil) there are plenty of simple things we can do to help maintain our cars and keep them in peak running condition.  Not surprisingly, cars that are properly maintained also tend to get much better gas mileage as ...
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Gas Prices Rise to a 7 Month High
2007-04-04 00:00:00
Thanks to increased geopolitical tension brought about by the “Iran Hostage Crisis Part 2″ the national average gas price has jumped nearly ten cents over the last week to $2.75 per gallon.  This represents the highest gas prices since last September and is nine cents higher than at the same point last year. After a massive drop in ...
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Despite Spike in Prices, Gas Consumption Remains Steady
2007-04-03 00:00:00
I know it’s the popular thing to complain about how outrageous gas prices have become, but when push comes to shove, are you really doing anything about it?  Unfortunately, according to an article published on SignOnSanDiego.com, most of us are eager to complain about gas prices, yet we’re still unable to change our driving habits. In ...
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Which Vehicle do YOU Think Can Help Save the World?
2007-04-01 00:00:00
A couple of weeks ago I started a poll asking people to vote on which type of vehicle they thought would best help solve our growing environmental problems.  After writing about many of the different types of environmentally friendlier vehicles, reading many of the comments and looking at the votes, it’s relatively clear that ...
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Are Electric Cars the Answer to the Growing Environmental Problems?
2007-03-31 00:00:00
Thanks to the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” it seems that lately there has been quite a buzz surrounding these vehicles and their potential to help us lead a much more environmentally friendly lifestyle. Back in the late 1990s, the electric car was all the rage.  It was touted not only as an environmentally ...
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The Iran Hostage Crisis Part 2 - What Will This Mean for Gas Prices?
2007-03-30 00:00:00
As I’m sure you’re already well aware, last Friday, the Iran ian navy seized 15 British sailors who had boarded a merchant ship somewhere in the Persian Gulf.  Whether the British sailors were in Iraqi or Iranian waters remains to be determined, but what is for certain is this has the potential to drag out, escalate ...
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Time to Unveil the “MPG Forum”
2007-03-30 00:00:00
First off, I just want to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has visited Daily Fuel Economy Tip over the last year.  It’s been a lot of fun working on this site and I hope that you’ve found it to be a good resource in helping you try to improve your car’s gas ...
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Are Biodiesel Fuel Vehicles the Answer to the Growing Environmental Problem
2007-03-29 00:00:00
After taking a couple of days off to talk about some other things, it’s time to get back to reviewing cars that might be able to save the planet. Today I’m going to look at biodiesel fuel, which I think is one of the more interesting alternative fuels out there because it is essentially a ...
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Turn Your Car Into a Hybrid by Simply Turning it Off
2007-03-28 00:00:00
I remember sitting in my 9th grade science class, and somehow we ended up getting in a discussion about gasoline prices.  My teacher told us that he had heard that the price of gas was getting so expensive in Germany that their government was asking people to turn off their cars while they sat ...
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Fuel Economy Tip - Keep A Gas Mileage Log
2007-03-27 00:00:00
While it’s nice to write about issues surrounding gas prices, the latest fuel efficient vehicles and other miscellaneous stuff, I think it’s time to get back to the real purpose of the site and write about some more gas saving tips. Today’s tip not only will help you achieve better gas mileage, but it might ...
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Thieves Steal 1,200 Gallons of Gas
2007-03-26 00:00:00
In what’s sure to become more and more common place as gas prices climb higher, an unidentified number of thieves were able to steal over 1,200 gallons of gasoline from a station in Olympia, Washington. According to an article published on WTOV, the thieves were able to steal the gasoline by breaking into the gas ...
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Arizona Governor Wants Investigation of Rising Gas Prices
2007-03-26 00:00:00
It looks like the fine people of Arizona are starting to become a little bit upset with the idea of paying more at the pump, so much so that their Governor , Janet Napolitano, is asking for a federal investigation to find out the reasons behind the latest jump in gas prices. It turns out, Napolitano and her ...
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Gas Prices Begin to Weigh Down, Anger Consumers
2007-03-26 00:00:00
With gas prices up nearly 22% since the end of January - and many places through out the United States averaging prices over $3 per gallon - it appears that the average American consumer is both concerned and angered at the pretty dramatic increase in the cost of filling their vehicle’s tank. Unfortunately, it looks like ...
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Are Ethanol Vehicles the Answer to the Growing Environmental Problems
2007-03-21 00:00:00
When gas prices hit record highs last summer, most of the talk about possible cheap and renewable fuel sources seemed to surround ethanol, which a product of carbon based feed stock.  Currently, most of the world’s ethanol comes from either corn or sugarcane. As a matter of fact, you’re probably using a small bit of ethanol when ...
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Are Fuel Cell Vehicles the Answer to the Growing Environmental Problems?
2007-03-20 00:00:00
In continuing my “series” on environmentally friendly cars of the future, today I will be taking a look at Fuel Cell vehicles.  Yesterday I wrote about Plug-in Hybrids, which seem to be an obvious short term answer to decreasing both our demand for oil as well as carbon emissions. The long term answer, however, probably ...
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Are Plug-In Hybrids the Answer to The Growing Environmental Problems?
2007-03-19 00:00:00
Over the next couple of days, I will be writing about the different types of vehicles that people believe could ultimately help slow or reverse global warming.  I’d like to go over the pros and cons of each of the vehicles and talk about how they might be able to be a little more ...
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The Biggest Factor in Where People Purchase Gas Is…
2007-03-16 00:00:00
First off, let me start by saying that I hope you didn’t come here in the hopes that I was going to provide some obscure answer or some great insight into why people buy gasoline where they do.  If that’s what you came here for, I hate to break it to you, but you’re ...
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