Oil is one of those things...what did people think would happen when we consume more oil per capita than any other nation? Let's be realistic about it, we should have gone full bore into modern nuclear power but 3 mile island and chernobyl scared most of the politicians off...now there isn't a new production reactor to speak of and the reactors we do have are all 30 years old already.
Nobody wants to hear nuclear power is the only way out of this mess. Electric cars are meaningless when renewable energy accounts for less than 3% of our power grid. We need real solutions to real problems.
For us scrappers that requires more outside the box thinking.
Route planning, by appointment only pickups...etc.
Converting your truck to propane, or even diesel and then running a wvo or biodiesel mix.
Ethanol: There are tax breaks for owning a flex fuel vehicle and actually USING ethanol over gasoline.
Change your driving habits. Let me help you there, I get 13.5 mpg in what's probably the biggest truck on this forum. Think about that for a second, how? Pretty simple, I changed the way I drive, I anticipate, I ride hills different, off the gas going up, on it going down. I go a little slower, 68 instead of 72. Tire rotations and pressure checks, using newer tires...almost everyone overlooks the tire but it is the single source of bad mileage over anything else.
Change your cap and rotor, wires and plugs, seafoam the truck, run synthetic gear oil in the rear end, especially in the winter. If you have a truck newer than 1993 and your not running synthetic oil you are throwing away gas money, that's an absolute fact. I don't want to hear all the naysayers about synthetics, they are so advanaced now over dino oil its unbelievable.
Stop running around with the hundred pounds of tools you never use in your truck. Oh and keep the snow and ice off the truck too, it kills mileage on the highway.
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