Global Warmer?

[Snax]

I suppose I should post a formal intro since I've been here a little over a week: My name is Kip and I'm a gasaholic.

Anyway, I used to be very into building cars for power and racing, but I've decided it just costs too much and we don't really have room for the race cars anyway. Now I've started to go the other direction with performance by attempting to get the most bang out of my buck in efficiency.

So far, we traded in the WRX STi for a Ford Escape Hybrid 4WD, but that just wasn't good enough either and we have sold it too. Now I mostly commute by bus or bicycle every day while my wife uses the truck for the daily kid deliveries and errands. I honestly don't have a real need to drive at all as far as work is concerned. This slight compromise in convenience is no saving us roughly 8000 vehicle miles per year, and over $400 per month by not having an additional car payment and insurance. So driving a truck as our only vehicle saves us money! (We do actually haul things like dirt, lumber, and our boat with it.)

Regardless, hopefully we can improve our economy for the truck by a significant amount by doing some of the things that others have done here.