{"id":516,"date":"2014-03-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richideas.co.za\/fuel-price-advice\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T10:35:09","slug":"fuel-price-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contattolive.co.za\/north\/fuel-price-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"FUEL PRICE ADVICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">What goes up must come down\u2026 except for the fuel price!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A little over a week into the new month and all drivers are already feeling the weight of the escalating petrol and diesel prices. \u00a0Reaching record heights last week, petrol pumps are now set at over R14 per litre (R13.95 at the coast), and this excludes the increased fuel levies that will be imposed from April, as announced in the budget speech at the end of February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If we follow the trends of January and February, petrol may increase by almost 40% in 2014 and diesel by over 25%. \u00a0This means that if you spend R650.00 to fill your tank, <b>you could be paying as much as R910.00 by the end of the year<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main contributors to fuel price movements are the price of crude oil, the Rand\/Dollar exchange rate and the fuel levies, which were increased in the recent budget speech delivered by Pravin Gordhan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One way of saving fuel is by driving better. It has been proven that better drivers have lower fuel consumption. \u00a0I\u2019ve taken the time to find some practical tips to saving fuel when you drive and reducing your expenses by improving your driving behaviour. \u00a0Here are five of them:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>1.\u00a0Drive smoothly<\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unless you are an actual racing driver, tearing away from the robots and then breaking like a taxi, who\u2019s seen a potential passenger, is a huge waste of fuel and reduces the life of your tyres. \u00a0Even, gentle acceleration is what saves fuel and the magnetic strip on your garage card.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>2.\u00a0Read the road ahead<\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By being aware of what is coming up you are able to anticipate the need to slow down and can \u201cease off the gas\u201d, as the Americans like to say. \u00a0This saves fuel and helps you to be a better, more defensive driver. \u00a0So, by implication, this means no using of your cell phone while driving, pull off the road and turn off the car if you need to answer the phone.<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>3.\u00a0Don&#8217;t over-rev the engine<\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from using loads of fuel and making you look more of a fool than the actual racing machine you think you might be, it\u2019s just a waste of fuel and creates extra fumes that are not great for the environment. \u00a0Burning rubber also burns a hole in your pocket.<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>4.\u00a0Use the gears sensibly<\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lazy gear changing wastes fuel. \u00a0As soon as it is safe and you are able, changing into that higher gear is a habit that will save you money. \u00a0The opposite goes for travelling up hills; change down gears to make better use the momentum of the vehicle.<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>5.\u00a0Fill up regularly<\/b><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Never wait until your petrol light begins to burn. \u00a0Once your tank is half full, the movement and splashing around of fuel actually increases evaporation in your tank, which means that you will literally be \u2018driving on fumes\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Try to fill up when your tank is half full, early in the morning when the fuel at the petrol station is cooler and denser. \u00a0Filling up later in the day increases the incidence of evaporation of petrol whilst the attendant is filling your tank.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over and above these tips, we also have short-term insurance options that offer cash-back to their members based on their driving behaviour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Perhaps it is now time to change<\/b>: change the way you drive and change the way that you\u2019re insured. 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A little over a week into the new month and all drivers are already feeling the weight of the escalating petrol and diesel prices. \u00a0Reaching record heights last week, petrol pumps are now set at over R14 per litre (R13.95 at the coast), and this excludes the increased fuel levies that will be imposed from April, as announced in the budget speech at the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-planning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FUEL PRICE ADVICE - Contatto North<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/contattolive.co.za\/north\/fuel-price-advice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FUEL PRICE ADVICE - Contatto North\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What goes up must come down\u2026 except for the fuel price! 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