A few tips for saving gasoline this summer…
Hi everyone! I’m thrilled to be guest blogging here today. A tiny bit about myself first. I write Romantic Suspense for Silhouette Romantic Suspense and for Samhain Publishing. I love cats, spending time with my family (hubby and one son) at our home in Louisiana and, of course, reading!
With the cost of gasoline skyrocketing this summer, I’ve been on the prowl for tips to help me get better gas mileage. Unfortunately, while the media seems more than willing to report the ever–increasing price of crude oil, I haven’t run across many tips on saving gas. What few tips I have scraped together, I wanted to share with you here. If you have more ideas on how to save fuel, please share them! One person who replies to this post will get a copy of my backlist book DANGER AT HER DOOR.
So here we go– Save gasoline this summer by:
1) Turn off your engine if you know you will be idling for longer than 30 seconds to a minute. Waiting on a long train to cross the intersection? Turn off the engine. Sitting waiting for soccer practice to end? Turn off the engine. Drive thru line backed up? You got it…turn off the engine. While you idle, going nowhere, you are getting 0 m.p.h. Ack!
2) Keep your tires inflated and your engine tuned up. Keeping your car in good working order means it doesn’t have to work as hard to get you where you are going.
3) My husband’s favorite driving tip… Don’t accelerate toward a red light. Coast. This will save your brake linings too!
4) Don’t run the air conditioning unless you really have to. In the evening or morning, you may be surprised how cool you’ll stay with the windows down. And along the same lines, if possible, run your errands in the morning so you don’t need as much A/C to cool your car down.
5) Whenever possible, carpool with a friend or neighbor.
6) And the number one best way to save gasoline is…don’t drive! 🙂 Stay home and read one of my two hot summer releases instead!
UNDER FIRE is my ebook release from Samhain and features a hunky scientist and a gutsy smokejumper. Here’s the blurb: A terrorist plot puts their lives—and hearts—on the line.
When Jackson McKay and his daughter are kidnapped, their captors demand his research files on a devastating chemical weapon—or they’ll kill his little girl. Jackson searches desperately for a way to save his daughter and also protect his country from the terrorists. No risk is too great. His daring escape sets in motion a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Arriving at the scene of a wildfire, smokejumper Lauren Michaels and her crew are caught in the crosshairs of Jackson’s nightmare. Lauren is the only one who can lead Jackson off the burning mountain and to the police. In order to prevent a national crisis and save a child’s life, they embark on a treacherous journey—one step ahead of a sniper!
But more than their lives are at risk, because an unexpected heat flares between them that may cost them their hearts…
And…DUTY TO PROTECT is on shelves now from Silhouette Romantic Suspense.
For years, counselor Ginny West (whom readers first met in DANGER AT HER DOOR last summer) has been helping abused women build a better life for themselves. Then a client’s husband turns his violence against Ginny, and she finds herself not only trying to protect the woman and her children but also fighting for her own life.
Responding to a call at the local women’s center, firefighter Riley Sinclair saves Ginny from a burning office and resuscitates her when she stops breathing. Having already faced one tragic loss in his life, Riley vows the dangerous man threatening Ginny won’t get a second chance to hurt her.
Although Ginny resists Riley’s guard duty, she can’t deny the sizzling attraction she shares with her fireman protector. But Riley has secrets he can’t share with Ginny, and she’s afraid to give Riley her love until she knows what he is hiding. While Ginny learns to trust Riley and her heart, her client’s scorned husband is drawing closer… and his plans for vengeance are growing more deadly!
For more information about either of these books, please visit my website at www.bethcornelison.com . And don’t forget, one lucky poster today will get a copy of DANGER AT HER DOOR, so let me hear your gas saving tips, your comments on these two books or whatever else is on your mind!
Take care and happy reading!
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