Frugal Tip for the Day - Alternatives to Driving
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With gas prices on the increase we all need to find ways to use our cars less often:
1. For local visits and journeys of a mile or less, walk don’t drive. Short journeys use a lot of gas.
2. Buy a bicycle and use it to get around your local neighborhood or even to commute to work. The exercise will do you good!
3. Use public transport. Most urban areas have a bus service. Learn to use it. Once more people start using buses the service and frequency will probably improve and this can only be good for everybody.
4. Many areas have car pool facilities. Phone, the number advertised and join the scheme. A single occupant commuting downtown in a car is a complete waste of energy. Once the car contains a driver and three passengers it is much more efficient.
5. Car-pool with your friends to go to the grocery store. Arrange a shopping day and time and then join up with two or three friends. Share a car and turn the chore of shopping in the supermarket into a social occasion. Stop on the way and have a coffee and a good chat. Here you save gas and have some fun, too! Try this link for car sharing activities in your area: http://www.carsharing.net/where.html
6. Have a car pool for driving the kids to school or to events like sports, swimming, drama, dance classes etc. Parents whose children attend the same functions can easily co-ordinate to share the driving and the fuel costs more equably. A little time spent pre-planning can save you lots of money.
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