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Savings Outside The Restaurant: Gas

We’ve been receiving emails from people asking about the Limited Time Bonus they get for telling friends about CouponCuisine. There have also been emails from those wanting to thank us for the valuable insights provided in the bonus. I’m going to let the cat out of the knapsack because this giveaway will only be free until May 25.

Let me preface this “revealing” by saying that CouponCuisine wants you to also save money outside the restaurant. We’ll be sharing such information as it becomes available. Our focus is giving you restaurant deals, but some tips are just too good to keep to ourselves.

The current bonus for telling your friends is an excellent book on saving money at the gas pump.

Gas prices are continuing to rise across the country and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. We all want to save as much as possible, and knowing about your car may save you hundreds of dollars a year.

Tips on saving gas aren’t very technical, and few would be thought of as inconvenient.

Take this example…

Buy your gas in the morning or evening

If you fill up your car in the morning or late evening hours when the temperature is cooler, you’ll be getting better gas price economy. This is because gasoline is denser in colder temperatures, and the gas pump only measures volume, not density. Another plus is that filling up during these hours tend to be less busy.

And here’s another tip that I’ve been using for months…

Turn the Nozzle

When you have finished filling up your gas tank try turning the nozzle of the hose a full 180 degrees (or as far as you’re able).

This will drain a bit more gas into your tank; in some cases up to an entire half cup that would otherwise be a bonus to the next gas customer.

Once you get into the habit of turning the hose you’ll find yourself doing it without thinking. That extra half cup that you get each time that you fill your gas tank can add up to a lot of extra gas at the end of the year that you never have known about.

After doing this “trick” I noticed that when removing the nozzle from my car there is very little, if any, dripping that I’d been accustomed to.

If these tips sound interesting and you’d like to read the other 60 (totalling 62!) then use our tell friends page to spread the word about CouponCuisine.

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