5 Tips--Save Money--Utility Room and Garage

Utility Room:

Washers: Set warm wash and cold rinse cycles, and save 90 percent over the energy used when machine washing in hot water only. Together, all U.S. households could save the energy equivalent of one hundred thousand barrels of oil a day by switching from hot-hot to warm-cold cycles.

Water Heaters: Wrap your water heater in an insulating blanket to store heat. Then set the thermostat no higher than 120 degrees to conserve energy. You could save 25 percent of the energy used in your home by making these changes. If everyone did this, U.S. households would save more than $32 billion per year in energy costs.

In the Garage:

Car Idling: Limit the amount of time you let your vehicle's engine run in the garage, and keep the garage door open. An idling vehicle emits twenty times more pollution than one traveling thirty-two miles per hour. There are sixty-five million garage owners in the United States. If 10 percent of garage owners were to idle their cars for just five fewer minutes per day, the total savings would be 84.5 million gallons of gas a year, enough for a million people to drive an average-size car across the country.

Car Wash: Washing your car in a commercial car wash is better for the environment than doing it yourself. Commercial car washes not only use significantly less water per wash--up to 100 gallons less-- but they often recycle and reuse rinse water. If every American who currently washes a vehicle at home chose instead to go to a professional car wash-- just once--up to 8.7 billion gallons of water could be saved, and some 12 billion gallons of soapy polluted water could be diverted from the country's rivers lakes and streams.

Hope these tips help save money and save the world. They are from "the green book" . Buy the green book and go to http://www.readthegreenbook.com/ .



Personal Note:

Saved $1.30 today by using regular gas instead of middle grade...13 gallons*10cents=$1.30.



Savings as of 1-19-08 $137.98

Savings today $ 1.30

Total savings this year$139.28

Happy Savings!!!!