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Can Electric Cars Really Save You Money?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Guest Post Author Bio: Miles Walker is a freelance blogger who usually writes about car insurance over at Car Insurance Comparison.org. His recent review looked at where to get North Carolina car insurance. The most obvious of such costs is simply its sticker price. Gasoline and Hybrids. Other Costs of a Hybrid.

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13 Ways to Make Your Existing Car Greener and Avoid Buying a New One

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

High gas prices got you down? However, buying a new car isn’t in the cards for me right now, so I have to make due with the one I have. Automobiles cause 51 percent of the carbon monoxide pollution in the air, so it’s important to do what we can to make our cars a little less dirty whenever possible. Shut the car off.

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11 Ways To Make Personal Travel More Sustainable And Less Polluting

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Unless you live, work, and play in your own neighborhood and never venture outside of it, chances are you own a car or a truck. Most major cities now have bike rentals available by the hour, which sure beats renting a car for the day. Doing so eliminates car payments, insurance bills, and maintenance costs.

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More Drilling is Not The Solution We Need for Our Energy Future

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The oil and gas industry still has well over 64 million acres of land that has been granted to them to explore on – which they have not even started using. Don’t believe anyone when they say drilling will bring down gas prices right away; it won’t. More drilling does not equal lower prices at the pump.

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