Petrol prices set to soar, but you can soften the blow. Our experts show you how you can save $30 a week and it's easy. Well the way petrol prices are going, staying off the road might become the only option anyway. We're told that petrol could hit $1.80 before long. Even more if the Aussie dollar takes a dive.
Australians burn 30 billion litres of fuel for road transport every year, but we could cut that by almost a third by taking a few simple steps, and that would save the average driver thirty bucks a week. David Eccleston a motoring expert john Kandoggan are about to show us just show how simple it is.
You'll save a grand and you won't spend a cent. Good luck but every time those lights go green i'm saving money and your spending it mate. Its time to wind back to clock to all. 2004. A time when Kosima had the number one song in the country, when Shrek II was the box office blockbuster and a time when a liter of petrol was less than one dollar.
You can roll back the petrol price if you save 25% off the price of fuel, you're saving thirty-something cents a liter.
This is the great fuel challenge. Two identical cars, driving identical distances on exactly the same roads, the same sort of driving millions of us do every single day. The only difference is, driving one of these cars will burn a much bigger hole in your wallet.
Right across Australia we've all got to deal with traffic, we've all got to deal with rising fuel prices. The price of fuel's on the way up.
Over a dollar forty a liter today, predicted to nudge a dollar eighty in the coming months. So tonight, no tricks, no gimmicks, nothing to spend. How you can save as much as 30 dollars a week at the bowser.
You don't have to buy anything. You don't have to do anything special except recognize that the accelerator in your car is connected to a tap that empties the fuel tank.
We're off I'm in Today-Tonight One, and with out breaking the law, I'll play the average Australian motorist. You know the type, weaving in and out of traffic. I'm feeling a bit on edge. I've a truck next to me here, I'm looking at the speedo constantly to make sure I'm not speeding.
You could be in any city in Australia and the same principles apply. You'll save a fortune In Today-Tonight Two, mechanical engineer John Cadogan, he'll be driving Miss Daisy.
All I'm doing is three things, right? When the traffic lights go red up ahead, I'm lifting off the gas really early and just coasting gently up to the stopped traffic. And when they go green again, I'm just not punching the throttle really hard, and then in traffic and when the other traffic's flowing, I'm just trying to maintain a nice, constant, go-with-the-flow speed.
It doesn't sound too hard.
But will it work? Destination, western Sydney, a 130 kilometer round trip. And while taking off rapidly at the lights seemed faster, the great leveler is this: constant red lights.
Well, you've been jockeying for position for, what, 20 minutes now, neck and neck. That hasn't really saved you any time at all. Have a look at this, this will be the last time you see it. Out of the city and it seems John's theory is cactus, or so I thought. At half time, 65 kilometers in and the margin is just 90 seconds.
What took you so long?
All that burning. How much does that hurt?
Okay, let's fast forward back to the city after a hundred and thirty kilometers. In total, I saved five minutes in travel time jockeying for position. But was it worth it? How much petrol did John save driving conservatively. The Driving Miss Daisy car consumed 11.65 liters. Well there we are and that's a full petrol.
So 11.65 litres is the challenge. Anything more than that we're saving money. That's it. we were both way off the mark, a result which will make every driver in the country take notice. The easiest money you'll ever save. Yours was eleven point six five liters bang twelve liters still going. My car swallowed up thirteen, went past fourteen, sailed through fifteen even scaled sixteen liters, and it still wasn't full.
Aggressive driving was very thirsty work. Hey over there, mate That's a good result. 17.78-liters. That's a 6-liter difference!
That's 15%, isn't it?
And it adds up! Six liters at today's prices is $8.60. That's in one round trip. But if you drive around 70 kilometers a day, you could save a staggering $33 a week; a $1700-a-year bonus by simply driving smarter.
You'll be putting money back in your wallet every time you just drive conservatively.
Certainly does pay to take it easy. That's David and John there, with a road map for cheaper driving. And more details about that story can be found on our
