Gas saving tips

[CMF Newsman]

Pumping pains are fueling frustration for Chattanooga drivers, who continue to watch gas prices rise.

"It's a pain in the bottom," says Glen Shagena, while filling up in Red Bank.

"I just can't afford it," says Jack Casteel, who's already thinking about adjustments his family will have to make to afford fuel.

To help, the Consumer Federation of America is offering tips (CFA) on how to make a tank go the distance.

www.wrcbtv.com/story/16977563/ways-to-save-on-gas

[joedog]

Go to work park, come home Park, Next day repeat.
starvation diet to supplement your fuel budget.

[TNBear]

Ride a bike.

[JC]

Hypermiling en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy-maximizing_behaviors

[Justin Thyme]

Feb 21, 2012 18:13:09 GMT -5 TNBear said:

Ride a bike.

For Chattanooga that is a very realistic alternative.

[Tsavodiner]

Hope it goes to six or eight dollars a gallon to get some of these mismatched-spare-tire POS's off the road, or those with $5000 of wheel and tire on a $900 car....

[Half-Tard]

Also when it'd cold outside dress in layers. Thanks eyewitness "Captain Obvious News".

[gridbug]

Feb 22, 2012 17:19:45 GMT -5 Tsavodiner said:

Hope it goes to six or eight dollars a gallon to get some of these mismatched-spare-tire POS's off the road, or those with $5000 of wheel and tire on a $900 car....

Not to mention soccer moms in their land yachts... Bring it on! If gas gets too bad I'll just walk instead.

[Bam]

Hope it goes to six or eight dollars a gallon to get some of these mismatched-spare-tire POS's off the road, or those with $5000 of wheel and tire on a $900 car....

Lol

[ssmynkint]

Hope it goes to six or eight dollars a gallon to get some of these mismatched-spare-tire POS's off the road, or those with $5000 of wheel and tire on a $900 car....

Not to mention fuel efficient vehicles, interstae passanger trains, reduced suburban sprawl and McMansions, and meaningful public transportation.

[Justin Thyme]

Feb 24, 2012 14:20:09 GMT -5 ssmynkint said:

Hope it goes to six or eight dollars a gallon to get some of these mismatched-spare-tire POS's off the road, or those with $5000 of wheel and tire on a $900 car....

Not to mention fuel efficient vehicles, interstae passanger trains, reduced suburban sprawl and McMansions, and meaningful public transportation.

I just hope the gas prices get some of these cars off the road so I don't have to work so hard dodging them on my bicycle.

[ssmynkint]

AND, not to mention increased use of bicycles!

[Kordax]

If it weren't for the dedicated bike paths in & around Chattanooga funded by Dept of Transportation grants (alternative transportation grants), the hilly, narrow roads, thin-shouldered city would be a non-started when it comes to minimally safe commuter biking.

[Justin Thyme]

Kordax, if you want to see a hilly area for cycling just visit you brother down here in Gwinnett County. Chattanooga has hills but take away the ridges and it is mostly flat. You also have some very large capacity roads that no longer have heavy traffic use. Dayton Blvd has no traffic to speak of anymore with US27 now bypassing that road. Folks in Red Bank have an easy commute to downtown. East Ridge only has Missionary Ridge as an obstacle from getting downtown. No DoT grants were ever needed to make Chattanooga bicycle friendly, only the attitude of the drivers.

[Warkitty]

"oh NO! Then all that money spent putting up share the road signs and markers on the streets and education was WASTED if it was already pretty good" (I hear him cry).

Seriously, it really has only ever been the drivers that have been problematic for riding in Chatt-town, and even then not too badly and they get a little better every year as more people take to the streets on bicycles.

[staffsgtsbunny]

I've noticed an influx of bikes here in the area I'm at, as well as the area where I work. And yes, I have clocked bikes at 25 miles per hour, unless you get to the ones who ride them professionally. Then you really are talking way up there.....thought they were holding onto the back of the truck they were hovering behind.

If Atlanta fixed many of its roads, there just might be more people riding bikes down here, but I can hardly stand to ride my bike on the roadway......sucks.

[mikeydokey]

If everyone road bikes to work then the price of gas would drop and everybody would drive their car to work.

[coffeeshooter]

Maybe we just need another Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act like Nixon gave us back in the 70s.

[joedog]

Feb 26, 2012 12:41:43 GMT -5 coffeeshooter said:

Maybe we just need another Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act like Nixon gave us back in the 70s.

Great idea.. with the super speeder laws now (that would not go away) you would begin to fill the jails with people who drive too fast.

Sounds like another great Nixon idea huh?

[Justin Thyme]

And yes, I have clocked bikes at 25 miles per hour,

When I was riding in Chattanooga I had no problem maintaining 24mph going south on Dayton Blvd and 17mph going north on Dayton Blvd. Going South is slightly downhill while riding north is slightly uphill. I'm a fairly slow cyclist as WK will attest.

The fastest speed I've attained was 47mph on a long downhill not far from my house here in Lawrenceville.

[daworm]

Feb 21, 2012 20:07:16 GMT -5 Justin Thyme said:

For Chattanooga that is a very realistic alternative.

Unless you live on one side of the river and work on the other. Places to cross are few, and very far between.

[Bob]

does carta still have those park and ride lots? I know most if not all of the buses have bike racks. I always thought it was a great idea to ride the bus most of the way then your bike the rest of the way.

People that work at places like BCBS or UNUM or the call centers at east gate could find people that lived in their area and all meet at one of the gazillion churches and car pool..

probably wouldn't be hard to find five mini van owners and everybody drive one day a week.