Improve Your Gas Mileage
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Hey everyone, I am Eric Rochow and this is Real World Green. Today, we are in the midwestern suburbs, we are actually at my dad’s house today and I have been thinking about this for a while and it is just kind of a neat simple green tip about how to improve your fuel economy and I was thinking especially of my father who drives a giant Cadillac. And I am thinking, Dad you could lower your fuel bill if you did this one simple thing and that one simple thing is to look in that trunk and empty it out.
Alright, my point here being, if you have a lot of junk in your trunk, it takes more gas to push big cars like this around and small cars too, but big cars have big trunks, so I have not look in this trunk yet but knowing my dad, it kind of runs in the family, sorry.
The pack rod of so, there is probably a lot of junk in here and that junk increases the weight of the car which then means that the engine has to work harder, meaning he is more fueled to push the car around. So if you have less stuff in your trunk you will get better miles per galloon, better mpg, is that makes sense?
Wow! Okay, so this stuff could go if you take this stuff out of your trunk you would increase your gas mileage and be less junk in your trunk, alright.
So, I mean not unusual, for a man of his age in a car like this but I like that less junk in the trunk, I just invented that by the way. But again, less junk in your trunk, you get better fuel economy. There is less weight in the car, so the engine does not have to work as hard and you can maybe get a little better gas mileage with your big Cadillac.
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