- Travel less
- 1. If you go out for lunch during weekday, share a car with your colleages.
- 2. Consider car pool. If you drive for more than 30 minutes to office on a working day with minimum traffic jam, consider sharing a car with a colleague on a large part of the journey. For example if your office is in Sungai Buloh and your home is in Bukit Jalil, share a car with colleagues in Puchong, Serdang, Seri Kembangan or Sungai Besi.
- 3. Reduce shopping frequency. If you shop once a week, consider shopping once every two weeks or even once a month. By buying less frequently, you can also buy in bulk.
- 4. Shop in nearby areas. Add transportation costs into shopping bills. If you drive to a shopping mall, not only you have to consider fuel cost, you have to consider depeciation and maintenance cost.
- 5. Stay in an area closer to your working place. If you stay in your own property that is too far from your working place, rent out your property and rent another place closer to your working place.
- 6. Telecommuting. Ask your company to allow your to work from home for at least one day in a week, specially Saturday.
- 7. Use self-service technologies as much as possible, e.g. phone banking, websites.
- Use more efficient vehicles
- 1. Use vehicle with more mileage per liter.
- 2. Use vehicle with smaller engine. If you drive a 1500cc car, consider 1000cc car.
- 3. Empty car boot.
- Use substitute
- 1. Use natural gas for your car
- 2. Use LRT. If you stay near a LRT station or travel in small group(two members or fewer), consider LRT
If you have other ideas in handling of fuel hike or cutting transportation costs, please share with us in the comment section. Of course you can 'subsidise' fuel hike by using money saving tips in other areas or increasing your income :)
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