If you’re like me, you may have a tendency to skip out on a few maintenance issues on your car, especially if its currently running well.  Over time, however, this can impact not only the ability of your car to run properly, but also your fuel economy.
Below are several maintenance tips from www.fueleconomy.gov that will [...]

Right now in the back of my gas guzzling SUV (hey, it’s paid for — my next car will be much more fuel efficient) is the following:
Battery powered drill, tools, three camp chairs left over from the kids soccer games, various sports equipment, clothes.  And that’s just what I can think of right now.
All of [...]

I’ve been intrigued for a few years with the concept of running diesel powered cars with used vegetable oil recycled from restaurants.  It works like this:
The car starts up using normal diesel fuel from the regular tank.  After warming up, the system switches to 100% vegetable oil.  After reaching its destination, the car must purge the [...]

Most strategies for decreasing fuel consumption focus on the automobile.  While there’s no mistaking that there are many things you can do to increase your car’s miles per gallon, just as importantly is driver behavior.  The way we drive has a tremendous impact on the amount of fuel we consume.  
Hypermiling  is the term given to [...]

So far at ETD, we have focused exclusively on saving energy in our homes.  While that will continue to be the primary topic, I’ve decided to take a week off from home energy savings and focus on another area of energy savings — our automobiles.  
Savings at the gas pump are very similar to home [...]