You don’t want to overload the car at any time. When you take a look at the design of the vehicle, you get a pretty good idea of what the car is built to handle. Anything out of that range is bad for the health of the car. If you have to, it had better be worth it, because each time you do, you waste gas, and you wear the engine faster. Bad habit, that.

I hear there are electric cars out in the market already. I personally read an extract last year in which Honda committed to flooding the market with this great new product. Great. As yet they may be too expensive for the likes of you and I to purchase, but not for too long. Get one when the time and tide are right, and save yourself the cost of gas from now till whenever.

When you don’t understand your vehicle very well, you tend to push the poor thing too hard. When you start to look to save gas, you had better work on a better relationship with your car. Learn to listen to how it responds to your touch so that you know when to feed it more gas and when to let up. Ultimately, you are saving gas as you need to.

You might want to avoid taking your vehicle over rough terrain. The rougher the terrain, the harder the vehicle engine has to work to be able to get over it, and thus, the more unnecessary gas is burnt. If it is not built for it, you’ll especially not much like the amount of gas you’ll be burning that way. Use if for what it is built for.

When you must pack the loads, you must. However, once you are done, you should get rid of them. You may not have thought of it, but cars – machine though they are – can only take so much. Just like you need to eat more when you do more work, your car needs more gas when it carries more loads. The loads weigh down your car and cause you to spend more on fuel. Not good.