How not to deal with rising fuel costs

[winnie]

A relatively minor safety issue, but still a dumb way to deal with rising fuel costs:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/06/02/stranded.motorists.ap/index.html

If you can, drive less. But when you fill your tank, fill it up. The fuel savings of having a half full tank are minimal at best.

Besides, if there is a hurricane that kills refining for a bit, you'd rather have that gas in your tank then in the store's tank.

-Jon

 

[Rampage_Rick]

The fuel savings of having a half full tank are minimal at best.

Then factor in the additional gas used to detour to the gas station every 3 days...

Also, on many vehicles the fuel pump is actually inside the gas tank, immersed in fuel. The pump actually uses the liquid for cooling purposes. If you constantly drive around with less than 1/4 tank of gas, you risk burning out your fuel pump.

I feel the pain, however. $105.10 fillup yesterday.

 

[jacobsond]

Do you mean the top half of the tank burns the same as the bottom? Then if you fill up when the tank is 1/2 full it will only cost 1/2 as much. I have never understood people (women) that wont fill up until the warning light comes on and claim "i still have 30 miles until its empty"

 

[masterinbama]

warning light? On my 63 VW when the hand quits wobbling it's time to get gas.

 

[HighWirey]

A relatively minor safety issue, but still a dumb way to deal with rising fuel costs:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/06/02/stranded.motorists.ap/index.html

If you can, drive less. But when you fill your tank, fill it up. The fuel savings of having a half full tank are minimal at best.

Besides, if there is a hurricane that kills refining for a bit, you'd rather have that gas in your tank then in the store's tank.

-Jon

If you are a business person, you cannot drive fewer miles.

As a retired person, I always fillup when my gage looks a little low. The cost is the the same, whether you are a quarter from the top, or a quarter from the bottom. In the event of a natural disaster, or a disaster of another kind, I am good to go, for a few 'hunnerd' more miles, if you gentlemen get my drift . . .

 

[ZZZ]

Keeping your tank full keeps air out and since the air contains humidity it reduces the amount of water that condenses when the tank cools at night. Water will rust the steel lines and corrode the aluminum parts and cost much more in the long run. Leave a half full can of gas in a storage shed for a year and see how much water (and rust) it accumulates.