WOW not sure about your part of the world but gas just shot up almost a US Dollar per gallon!!!

So lets talk about saving gas and cash

Iv put a K&N air filter on my 2003 2.5 X-type, didnt notice much of a diffrents, but in threory it help out alot. I add fuel additives alleast one a month, these also dont make much of a difference unless i stop using them for a few months.

Keeping it clean seems to be the best bet, but even still, i still only get about 18mpg... any thought about how to save gas?

 

I am convinced the best way to improve your fuel mileage, is to anticipate the traffic movement around you and drive accordingly. I average 10.1L per 100k in my XJ8. I have a 5L V8 Falcon ute which averages 10L per 100k and has done 200,000k on the original brakes and are only 50% worn.
The fact that I tow a horse float on occasion makes me very conscious of the traffic around me, because horses don't like to thrown around when traveling, so a smooth ride is essential.
This doesn't mean having to travel slowly and not enjoy the car, I can still do a trip from Sydney to Melbourne, 1,000k in under 10 hours including stops.

 

Count your blessings dude! Canada is an oil exporter, no imports, and my gas this morning cost me 3.12 per litre, 4 litres per gallon, that about 12 bucks a gallon. Why you ask...FREE TRADE!!!!!!!

 

Not to scare our US friends unnecessarily, it's more like $1.30/litre ( http://www.gasticker.com/pricelist.php?location=8 ). If you paid as much as you say there's a story there. The price I found translates to about $4.90/US gallon and the difference is mainly taxes Canadian governments add.

 

I really don't need to drive all that much so I'll just cut back driving when I don't need to anymore. Work a few miles from home, can walk to the grocerry store, already get most other stuff online. When it starts costing me over $10 to fill up my 2 gallon bike tank, I'll break out the 10 speed. Glad winter is nearly over and the oil tank is full though. Not much savings there as we keep the thermostat as 64 during the day, 58 at night as it stands now. Might look into a solar hot water system to supplement it though.

 

My car is sitting on empty right now (wife will fill it tomorrow when she borrows it to shop I'm a habitual hypermiler when it comes to driving technique without going to extremes and slowing/screwing people behind me. The X has settled on 19.9 MPG this past tank. That might be a record for it without any highway miles being driven. What's it mean in reality? It means if I drove the exact same roads as if someone else was paying for fuel and repairs, my X would probably net me about 16 MPG without ever flooring it.

I practice hypermiling with the Corvette too because the gains are even larger for a V8. However, when the situation allows I cash in my savings for a quick sprint or just to hear the exhaust opened up. I installed a foot switch to open the bi-mode pipes which is basically like running open headers with the hi-flo cats.

For more on hypermiling, check out the Wiki page and don't be afraid to google more pages that will better explain exactly how to pull it off. You need to learn exactly when the trans shifts under all conditions but mostly how to gage traffic and lights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_ec...zing_behaviors

PS. A lot of countries have much higher fuel prices than the US because they use the taxes to subsidize other programs, such as healthcare. It's NEVER apples to apples. Crude costs X.XX, there is no getting around it. Prices differ because their government is doing something else with the extra money.

 

You guys pay allot more then us in Ontario Where does all of our money from Alberta go? We are the largest exporter of oil to the U.S., you would think we would get a break at the pumps. I don't really have a choice but to pay as I travel 2 hours a day for work and I refuse to drive a small vehicle.

 

Wow guess you guys are right, its much worse everywhere else. but still its very high spike for me and its hard to swallow. But hey, we cant do anything about that. so just like the rest of the world we just gotta bend over and take it. lol

As far as saving gas, i have hear of hyper milage. sound like we all need to learn somthing about that. I have a manual so i take it out of gear and coast as much as possible.
I wish there was a magic fix to this but i guess thats what i get for not getting a honda. My advice for everyone else is get a K&N air filter, keep your tires inflated, and dont drive in traffic.

 

Wow.....we feel so sorry for you guys with your "HIGH" gas prices....lol.....NOT!


Over here in the UK prices are now around the £6.00 per gallon....thats around $10 near as dammit makes no difference


I'm so surprised there hasn't been a serious outcry recently, fuel prices can't keep going the way they have been or only the very few / priveleged will be able to drive ins a few short years

 

I saw an interesting documentary about oil last year, cant remember the title. They more or less said that they base the price on future supply and demand and if new reserves are not discovered the price will rise and rise. They also base it on population growth/auto sales world wide. They said we have surpassed the peak and the supply is diminishing. I'm however not sure who sponsored the program

 

$3.12? I think you've switched some digits. Maybe $1.23.

Gasoline price differences from one country to another have nothing to do with anything other than local taxes- Canada is still on the low end of the scale on a worldwide basis. The free trade act doesn't have any bearing on this.

 

It must have been a typo, I searched B.C. gas prices and the highest was $1.31 for regular.

 

This precipitous rise in gas pricing has me baffled. The revolution in Libya seems to be the catalyst, but the US only gets, according to news sources, ~1% of it's crude oil from that country. I'm thinking that it's the lack of government oversight on 'big oil' that's allowing the corporations to get away with this fleecing of the general public.
I'm looking forward to the rapid development of hydrogen powered cars.

 

People need to LEARN that oil is a commodity. "Big oil" does NOT set the price of oil. OPEC controls a major portion of the supply and the world reacts to the supply or fears. That's it. There is NO American "big oil corp" that controls price. It's simply a lucrative business to be in. There is nothing sinister about making money.

If you are for more government control, then you are a socialist at best. Blame OPEC and speculators all you want, you won't get an argument from me. But why isn't everyone blaming Obama for high prices like they blamed Bush. All of a sudden they realize the president has nothing to do with it? A little late for that, but I'm sure they'll use that excuse the next time it serves their purpose.

 

A price per gallon jump of 50 cents SOUNDS BIG but my 140 miles per day drive still only translates to $37 per month.

Kinda like my neighbor who drives out of his way to save 5 cents per gallon. 5 times 20 gallons per tank saved him a buck a tankfull, whoo who.

 

Great, just great! on a car that already only gets me 200-250 miles per tank (16 mpg). Welp, nice weathers coming, I think ill just get a bike or, Drive my 30 MPG diesel Mercedes (400 miles to a tank if not more)

 

I get 24 mpg commuting to work and 28 mpg on road trips with my 2002 X-Type 2.5 L. I accelerate quicker than most cars from the stoplights, but then if the traffic flow is steady I put on the cruise control. I find that holding exactly to the speed limit gives me good gas mileage and gets me where I am going faster.

 

@C5Pilot....Politics aside, my comment was based on personal observation of the WTI crude price rise vs the rise at the pump....at least in my area. Crude has jumped ~14% whereas unleaded reg has popped ~20%. OPEC? I think not. Just look at the pump prices the Canuk posters in this thread are seeing vs what we see in the States.

 

Not quite sure what point you're trying to make with respect to prices we pay in Canada.

 

I'm on crack, it was 1.32 per liter. But I live exactly 72 blocks from the US and in 20 minutes I can fill my tank. saves me about 20.00 per tank. My X5 has a giant tank and I save about 35.00 filling it in the US.