Oops.. I have not been blogging much! 

Ok guys sorry, life has a funny way of getting in the way of the things we all need or want to do! I want to blog, but I am not a daily blogger by any means. I work and I need play time and I have a bit of a social life.. so the blog gets set aside for a bit!

Well it seems that gas prices are still rising... May being the month that usually happens.. 

Gas has gone above$4.20 a gallon again. Thankfully it has not gone to $5.00 a gallon yet. But with the increase in gas prices we are all under a financial crunch. Everything costs more because or rising fuel costs.

 We all need to find ways to conserve gasoline and not rely on the pump so much, if at all possible!

My old truck has recently been doing very poorly on fuel due to a leak in the throttle body... ugh.. so I opted to get a newer car instead of just putting more money into my old tank.. I am now getting almost 40 miles to the gallon as opposed to the 25 my truck averages, and lately that has dropped to below 20 due to that fuel leak.. it's that bad if not worse. You can just turn on the key and the fuel almost pours out of the throttle body.. so I figure this payment I have now will basically be taken care of by the savings in gas that I will have each month!

What you say I cannot save my car payment in fuel each month? Of course I can! I drive a lot, for recreation and for work of course.. I just got this new car on the 8th and have put 1100 miles on it.. and I have not been going to work at all.. Once work starts up, I will not be spending as much on pleasure driving, but the miles still add up and I still will be getting almost 1/3 of my money back in fuel savings! Here's an example.. take my miles this month.. If I was driving my truck1100 miles at 25 miles per gallon = 44 gallons * $4.25 = $187. My new Nissan Versa 1100 miles / 40 miles per gallon =   27.5 gallons * $4.25 = $117. That's a $70 savings.. I can fill up my new car on that savings almost twice.. since the tank is only 11 gallons!

So I figure at this rate I will save in fuel costs about half of my payment each month, if not a bit more. I think I can handle that! Plus I pollute less due to the better gas mileage. I can even run the AC and it gets this amount of miles per gallon.. my truck has no active AC and it also sucks the fuel up...

If you drive a lot and have a vehicle that gets poor mileage, you should seriously think about getting something more economical. Yes, I know that Hummer is your status symbol, but that doesn't mean you can't have a Yaris or something small to drive to work and back.. Our oil will not last forever... it is a limited resource.. it WILL RUN OUT one day.. at the rate we are going, we may all see that happen sooner than we think.. Then what will you do? You sure won't need that Hummer anymore...