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I doubt there is anybody out there who has not noticed that the price of gas has rocketed up in recent months. We have seen the price of gas rising steadily over the last few years and now we are all finding gas is emptying our wallets. People are wanting to spend less money on gas and the only way they can see to do that is to stop using their cars.

Is there anything that we can do about this? That is the question everybody wants answered so I will try to answer that here. We cannot change the price of oil. Maybe the politicians can do something but for now we are on our own. There are ways to use less gas in the way we drive and the type of vehicles we drive or we can make our own cars and trucks run further on what gas we have.

One of the first things we should think about is how often we use our cars. If we can do fewer trips then we will use less gas. Doing several jobs while you are out will save you having to drive again later to get those things done so you will use less gas. You could think about doing car sharing with a neighbor for shopping trips and you both end up saving money on gas and you get to know your neighbors better too.

We can drive in a way that uses less gas. Not many people are aware of this but hard acceleration and braking wastes gas. If you plan ahead and slow gently you will save gas. Accelerate gently and smoothly and you will use a lot less gas than you would with a heavy boot on the throttle. The secret is to think ahead and see what the traffic is doing in front of you so you do not need to reacte suddenly. This will save you gas.

Next we can run our cars in a more economical way. We could buy a smaller and more efficient car, we can get our car serviced which can sometimes make it run a lot better and use less gas or we can add certain gas saving devices to our vehicles which help to reduce the amount of gas we use.

These gas saving devices have been mocked over the years. Car companies and the oil industry have been quick to dismiss them. The trouble is that these organizations have a vested interest and the oil companies wanted us to use more gas while the car companies didn’t want to look like they were not bothered about our cars fuel consumption.

There may be some devices that made no sense back in the day when oil and gas was cheap but now gas is so expensive they may make a lot more sense. Just a saving of a mile or two per gallon would be a very valuable saving in gas costs for many people.

The scientists are saying that we will all be using hydrogen for our gas supplies in years to come but that seems to be a way off yet. There are not many hydrogen gas stations and there are only a handful of hydrogen cars running around on our roads as test vehicles. We are an inventive nation and there are lots of people who have been working on this problem in their garages and workshops and they have developed ways to generate hydrogen and use it to save on gas costs in the cars we already have and drive every day.

You may think you need to be a rocket scientist to develop a hydrogen generator for your car but it a simple process. So simple you can buy a guide online, buy all the parts locally and put the system together in just a weekend. It takes an hour or two tops to fit the system to your car and you have your hydrogen generator helping to reduce your gas usage.