Chevron station at Rosecrans St and Sports Arena Blvd
Actually this was one week ago--and today I refilled the car for $3.89/ gallon. Of course we have to seek the cheaper places out, and gas was less expensive when we arrived in February. We're still painfully aware of the price of gas--especially with a 20 year old car that gets 23 mpg, on a good day--so we're part of the millions of Americans conserving in little ways: Matt's been carpooling lately, I take the Coaster to class on Tuesdays, we drive slower (65 vs 80 mph on the freeways) and I certainly think about my routes and trip chain whenever possible. New to trip chaining? Here's a little blurb about it from the California Center for Sustainable Energy.
"In 1995 this term was used in a study done by the U.S. Department of Transportation to study the declination of personal trips carried out by public transit. Every stop was considered a chain along the entire trip, from the moment you left the house until you returned.
The term is now used to describe the ideology of combining all of your errands into a planned out route that will save you time and money, something familiar to most all of us in our busy and increasingly expensive lives.
UPS has taken this method and implemented into its daily operations. Truck routes are now preplanned utilizing only right turns to avoid waiting at left turn signals. They estimate they are saving around three million gallons of fuel per year with this plan."
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