They’d do this year round. Sometimes just one of them, sometimes the mom and some of the kids.

One good thing to do is also combine errands into one go. You’ll drive fewer miles, and you car gets better mileage when it is warmed up versus starting cold several times.

trip planning is the big one, if you can get your weekly groceries in a single run that’s the way to do it, get cooler bags for your car to keep things from going bad while you are shopping at other stores.

1. Drive as fast as possible. Getting there fast reduces the amount of gas you burn on the way!

All solid tips. This one bears repeating: Maybe not be in a rush? When you whip like a rocket through the streets, stopping for every red light and then resuming speed, you go through so much more gas than if you just drove like me. I’m the person who goes the speed limit, resuming speed at a gentle pace because my…

I’m not shitting you, my across the street neighbors would start their car and sit in it for an HOUR, then get out and go back in the house. Yes, they’d sit in their running car for an hour and not fucking go anywhere.

Some of us old-timers have been through this a few times now. All the tips are solid. Here’s another, any moment, and I’m sure it’s already happened, you’ll start seeing ads for the “Fuel Tornado” or some such variety of gizmos claiming to improve your mileage. None of them work. The best you can do is to be smart and…

On my drive home last night, I noticed there were not the usual amount of people that just have to be in front of everyone else.

Nah, he’s likely to just complain about the cost, blame the wrong parties, and never recognize his own behaviors and how they contribute.

It will be interesting to see how expensive gas has to get before the guy across the street refrains from remote starting his car and letting it warm up for 20 minutes when it’s 70F (21C) outside.

While hitting nothing is a lot LESS likely to.

A critter is going to have a nest or some kind of space it thinks of as safe. If it jumps, it will most likely go towards that place, which means it might suddenly turn and go in the opposite direction. Keep the wheels straight, slow down as quickly as you safely can, let the animal dodge you (or not).

How wildlife bridges over highways make animals—and people—safer (nationalgeographic.com)

Evidence that birds do not always fly away:

I hit a bird with my car once :-( I slow down ever since then.

I do absolutely nothing if the animal in the road is a bird; they always fly away.

Good grief who is assigning these terribly inaccurate and environmentally irresponsible articles? It seems to be a trend at Lifehacker.

Unless we stopped totally buying from OPEC, it wouldn’t do much. We increase supply, they will scale back to keep prices high.

See above; Keystone, not helpful for our energy needs.  Look up commodities trading for your villain

Keystone would’ve taken Canadian Oil down to Mexico for refinement leaving us entirely out of the loop besides some temporary jobs to build the thing. Plus that’s “new”, not cancelling something that currently exists and provides us with oil. Good try though, bro.