Assalamualaikum....
Maybe the followings can be shared among us and others :
1. Drive at a steady pace - Stop and go driving increases your gas
consumption by 33%. Avoid quick stops and quick jumpy accelerations.
Instead, drive at a steady even pace. Use cruise control when highway
driving. This will maintain a constant steady speed and save gas.
2. Don't speed - Gas efficiency decreases quickly when you drive faster
than 40 mph. Use overdrive or higher gears. This will reduce the rpm speed
of your engine and increase gas mileage by as much as 45 %.
3. Turn off the airconditioner - Avoid using the airconditioner as much as
possible. When the airconditioner is on, the engine works harder,
increasing gas consumption by about 20 %.
4. Dont't idle for long periods - Idling your engine for one minute uses
the amount of gas equal to what is used in starting the engine. So, if you
need to wait for someone longer than one minute, turn off your engine.
5. Buy gas during coolest hours - Buy gas during early morning hours or
evening when air temperature is coolest. Gas is densest during the cooler
hours. Gas pumps measure volumes of gas not the concentration of gas
density. You will get more for your money during the cooler hours.
6. Do car maintenance regularly - Replacing clogged air filters will
improve your gas mileage by as much as 10%. Tune ups maintain your engine
running efficiently which in turn will improve gas mileage.
7. Close your car windows - When highway driving, close your windows to
improve aerodynamics and lessen wind drag. This will increase gas mileage
by about 10%. Instead use the vents to bring in outside air.
8. Lighten your load - Remove all unnecessary items from your car. Don't
leave your bowling ball, golf sets and other sports equipment in the car.
Leaving extra unneeded items in the car will decrease your gas mileage. For
every 100 ibs extra you leave in your trunk it will lower your gas mileage
1-2 %.
Others :
1. Learn and read books on your free time about biofuel - It has been a
trend nowadays in the west and also in Germany that cooking oil can be
reused for as car gas alternative. Home made fuel ie. palm oil, soya bean
and coconut oil can be reused instead of draining it to the main drain and
polluting the environment. It's very simple thing to do but one has to read
the procedures carefully and it involves a little bit of chemical reaction.
The reused fuel can be mixed up with our patrol at any range of mixture 30,
40 70 or even 100%. This is cheap and environental freindly solution. If
not successful, the product would however turn as soap for both washing and
bathing.
2. Government is encouraging the oil mill to expand their existing plant or
build factories with biotech facility to counter the unbearable increase of
petrol, diesel and other petroleum related products. This will also
encourage supply of biofuel in the next 5-10 years and will lessen our
dependency on the ever blood sucking oil producers. But this can only be
realistic for firms like Guthrie, Sime Darby, Felda, PPB, IOI, Johor
Tenggara and other plantation giants.
Conclusion :
1. Stop blaming others whenever there is fuel hike but instead be
innovative, creative and inventive so that the burden will not deter our
kids education, our progress etc. Nothing much we can do anyway to reduce
the price. Refer to our Holy Quran for inspiration and direction to come
out of this crisis.
2. Maybe it is easy said than done but till we try we may not know the
results whether it turns our way or the other way.
That's all for now. Anyway, don't blame we the moment your car start
shaking, strange noise coming from the engine, etc. Heheh...
Hope it will benefit everybody. No pain no gain brother....
Wassalam
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