Gas Pains

I just paid our monthly gasoline bill this morning. We charge all of our gas to one credit card in order to save .03 a gallon on each fill, and then we pay it off each month. That makes our pain one big fart, rather than several small toots each month. It's a whopper, but it could be worse if we didn't do things to minimize the pain.
With gas prices on the rise again, I thought I might mention some of the ways we save on the cost of gasoline - which also helps the environment out too.
The first thing we do is make sure we're saving as many trips to town as possible. Living 12 miles from the nearest town, things could get very expensive if we didn't coordinate trips. I've only driven our second car to town once this summer on an extra trip. My husband has to drive in 5 days a week for his job, so he does all of the additional errands we need while he is there - picking up incidentals at the stores, going to the bank, post office and trash dump.
On either Friday night or Saturday, we make an additional trip together, combining the rest of the errands he can't do by himself - hair cuts, date night, doctor and dentist appointments, big grocery shopping and other things. We never, ever go into town just for one thing.
Next, we make sure our vehicles are in top running condition by servicing them and making sure they're as fuel efficient as possible.
I'll talk more about how you can do this on Friday...