And when I mean drive like a grandma in order to save on gas, you don’t have to drive an old beat up Cadillac, dye your hair gray and keep peering over the steering wheel like a startled rabbit.

Yes, you can actually save considerable money over the course of a year if you don’t drive 75 miles an hour on the freeways, and drive 60 instead. Why? Because you get way worse gas mileage the faster you drive. Assuming you drive 15,000 miles a year, and gas prices stay at $4 (which it is over now), you stand to save around $250 a year. Even more if you usually drive 85! There are savings not to be sneezed at!

Another way of saving money by being more ‘grandma’ like at driving, is by not being so heavy on the gas or the brake pedal. Yes, its sometimes fun to try and out-accelerate someone in their fancy BMW at the stop light when they aren’t paying attention. And by tailgating, you are more likely to brake harder. Both being heavy on the gas and hard on the brake pedal, the environmental protection agency estimates you will reduce your cars efficiency by 5%. This works out to be a saving of around $75 a year (for 15,000 miles a year at $4 a gallon) - even more for higher performance cars!

So if you start doing both of these grandma driving habits, fair enough, you aren’t likely to impress that hot chick or cool guy, but you could save yourself around $325 a year - enough for a weekend trip away somewhere! And no, you don’t have to wear dentures either to start driving this :)

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