According to a CNN piece from last year, “Every 10 miles per hour you drive over 60 is like the price of gasoline going up about 54 cents a gallon.”

How slow should you drive?: The problem is that when you drive above 60 mph your mileage decreases. Since the speed limit is higher than this in many areas your goal should be to keep it slow when driving in neighborhoods and so fourth. Seriously, if you’re not on the highway why drive above 60?

What if my car is small – can I drive faster?: No, studies show that size doesn’t matter. When it comes to burning gas, a car is a car is a car. If you have a monster truck or a tiny two door drive slower.

Why bother driving slow?: One, you save some cash. Gas prices are lower right now, but we all know they pop up and down frequently. Two, in case you haven’t heard, oil is a non-renewable resource. Some experts estimate that it takes nature over 250 million years to make just the oil the current population will use up in 100 years. Those aren’t the best statistics. We will eventually run out of oil, and it’s not all about us (there will be future generations) so conservation is important.

Lastly driving at the speed limit is simply safer. Not that this is a huge green issue, but you know, just tossing it out there.

Do you often drive over the speed limit? Why?

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One smart way to conserve gas

First we got Al, then we got George, then we got Al, then we got George – then we didn’t know who we got due to a bunch of hanging chads in another Bush’s state – then it went to the supreme court and we ended up with George W.

Both men went on to change the world in their own unique ways.

Gore went on to write an Inconvenient Truth and galvanized to make the world a greener place, less reliant on oil.

Bush went to war and proceeded to make $50,000 feel an awful lot like $30,000. Both with oil and the price of it. Conveniently (or Inconveniently depending who you are), also the source of his family’s fortune. Now, that’s a thing that makes me say Humm.

Now, we’re here again, as is our way in America. This time I’m a little happier.

First there’s more diversity this election: We’ve seen the first woman (Hillary Clinton), the first black man (Barack Obama), the first hispanic (Bill Richardson), and the first Mormon (Mitt Romney) candidates. Have there been other Baptist preachers (Huckabee)? I dunno. Other Ob/Gyns (Ron Paul)? I doubt it.

Happily, none of the candidates appear to have a personal financial stake in oil.

Please, no hanging chads this year.

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