15 Gas-Saving Tips as Pump Prices Increase in Many Regions – Biz Coach Terry Corbell

Aug. 12, 2009 - PRLog -- If you want to cut costs, you might want to start with fuel, writes Biz Coach Terry Corbell, a profit professional. Of course, such tips help businesses, individuals and families save money.

As a longtime columnist, he has written about 450 business-coaching columns for various media sites since 2001. His columns are updated and archived on his Web site, The Biz Coach, http://www.bizcoachinfo.com, “Proven Solutions for Maximum Profits.”

It’s a business-resource site with performance-enhancing strategies and breaking-business news video reports on events and trends.

Here are the 15 tips:

1. Start and stop gently. This is the first step in saving gas while driving on arterial roads.

2. Observe the speed limit. In my frequent business travels up-and-down the west coast, it’s rare, very rare, that I see any business vehicles or passenger cars driving the speed limit.

3. Get regularly scheduled tune-ups. A poorly tuned vehicle increases unnecessary use of fuel.

4. Change air filters. You can save 10 percent of your gas costs by regularly changing air filters.

5. Change your oil. You can reduce the engine friction and remove unwanted substances from your engine with clean oil. A smooth-running engine is best.

6. Turn off the engine to shun unnecessary idling. It pollutes the air and wastes fuel.

7. Avoid the typical gas-savings gadgets. The Environmental Protection Agency says only a handful of gadgets provide any benefit. So refrain from buying the so-called fuel-line magnets and mixture enhancers. In fact, some actually will hurt your truck or car engine.

8. Buy the right octane gas. Unless your engines are knocking, stay with regular.

9. Take advantage of cruise control and overdrive. For freeway driving, this is a must to save money.

11. Check tire pressure. You can save 3 to 4 percent on gas with proper tire pressure.

13. Lighten the load. Make sure to clean out the trunk. You’ll save up to 2 percent with the lightest-possible load.

14. Be strategic in your trips. You’ll save twice the gas if you make all your deliveries in one trip than with several short trips on a cold engine.

15. Encourage car pooling. This will save employees’ gas, help unclog the roads and will help the environment.

Mr. Corbell also currently writes an Internet business-coaching column, The Biz Coach, for the Money News page at Seattle’s KIRO, the "2009 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winner for Overall Excellence." The direct link to Mr. Corbell's columns: http://www.kirotv.com/sponsors/16850870/detail.html.

Mr. Corbell often draws on his experience as a business-performance consultant and media columnist.

The New York Times featured him twice in 2008. For some his business tips, simply Google each of these headlines:

• Been There... Done That... Here’s How
• Advice on Taking an Entrepreneurial Leap

As a profit professional, he developed The CMS Approach. To relieve a company’s financial stress, The CMS Approach includes a financial turnaround program on a pay-for-performance basis. Mr. Corbell provides complete solutions for a small retainer and one percent of the net-profit increase.

He is managing member of CMS Associates LLC, http://www.cmsassociatesllc.com, which is long-known for providing “Solutions to Increase Revenue.” CMS is an excellent company with an outstanding record of success since 1992. The firm has insights, systems and strategies to save companies time and money while increasing revenue.

Mr. Corbell is also focusing on economic development. He and KIRO are partnering to promote the economic climate of Western Washington communities.

He’s writing a book tentatively entitled, “How to Watch Your Back in the Jungle – Avoiding Business Predators.”

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Terry Corbell, The Biz Coach, is a profit professional and business-performance consultant. He is a longtime columnist at media Web sites, and publishes performance-enhancing strategies at www.bizcoachinfo.com, Proven Solutions for Maximum Profits.