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Radical Personal Finance

195-Double (At Least) Your MPGs: 109 Hypermiling Tips from Ecomodder.com

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.2 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

How much do you spend each year on fuel costs for your car? What is your current mileage per gallon?

Before you rush out and buy a new hybrid to save money on gas, consider improving your driving techniques. It doesn't cost you anything except attention and focus and it can make a substantial difference.

As an example, check out this guy who got his 3/4 ton pickup truck from an EPA estimate of 15 mpg to almost 60 mpg!

In today's show I feature 109 tips for more efficient driving. These tips come from the good folks at the Ecomodder forum.

Listen to (or read) the list, choose a couple of techniques and start practicing! Enjoy the savings and put the money to work elsewhere in your life!

Joshua

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do you listen to me while you're driving or do you drive? If so, today's show could save you some cash.

0:10.0

I'm going to give you 109 driving tips and techniques for how to improve your efficiency

0:16.4

behind the wheel.

0:18.0

Pay less money in fuel costs.

0:20.2

And then depending on timing, I may or may not get into some simple vehicle modifications you can make as well. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host. Today,

0:47.0

episode 195 of the show. You've got to drive, you've already got a car, could you improve the efficiency of your car on the

0:57.6

road by as much as four times what you're currently accustomed to?

1:03.5

How much money would that save you every year if you implemented it? I've been wanting to do this show for a little while and it's going to be very practical,

1:17.0

kind of just a tip-based show, and so if you're into that kind of thing, stay tuned.

1:22.0

After my introduction, I'll mention the article

1:24.1

that I'm working from and this would be a good show if you are easily able to read

1:28.1

and you're looking just you prefer to read feel free just to read for those of you

1:32.1

who like the audio only because you're driving

1:35.4

something like that don't have a lot of time to read then I'm going to walk

1:37.8

through a bunch of tips, a bunch of which I think you could integrate into your

1:41.5

life to save some money. And kind of the impetus for this show is I bought a car.

1:46.0

I'll tell you all the details of that maybe in a future show. I've been wanting to do a show on business savings for cars and all that but in essence I I bought a

1:54.9

cheap car I found a deal on a 1998 Toyota Corolla car is in good mechanical

2:02.4

shape and it was in pretty rough cosmetic shape to do a lot of work to clean it up a little bit and also got a few cosmetic things that need to be fixed a couple of things in the instrument

2:13.4

panel that aren't working but mechanically the car is in good shape and I paid

2:16.7

500 bucks for it and so pretty proud of that deal was one of those scenarios of exactly like I talk about having

2:25.0

five hundred dollars isn't a lot of money but I mean just having money on hand is

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