{"id":564,"date":"2016-02-28T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2016-12-19T01:16:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T07:16:52","slug":"premium-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/28\/premium-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Does your new car need premium gas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though gas prices have been down from their record highs of a few years ago, it&rsquo;s still important to limit your gas expenses as much as possible.&nbsp; One of the best ways to do this is to stop buying premium gasoline.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, premium gasoline was sold as a product that would help you to prolong the life of your vehicle.&nbsp; Supposedly, this gasoline was particularly pure, preventing a build-up of impurities on your engine.&nbsp; Multiple studies have shown, however, that there is virtually no advantage to using premium gasoline in most vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The truth of the matter is that in most vehicles, any &ldquo;impurities&rdquo; are burned up along with the gasoline.&nbsp; While some sports cars may have power trains that consume fuel at lower temperatures (thus making it necessary to use premium gasoline), if your owner&rsquo;s manual doesn&rsquo;t call for premium gasoline, then you can save a lot of money by filling your tank with regular.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that there isn&rsquo;t much environmental advantage to using premium gasoline.&nbsp; Carbon emissions are caused from burning the carbon in the gasoline.&nbsp; There is virtually no difference in the carbon between regular and premium gasoline.&nbsp; The only way to reduce your car&rsquo;s carbon footprint is to drive it less.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re looking for more ways to bring your transportation costs down, you may want to think about calling the agents at Mid Atlantic Insurance Financial.&nbsp; They&rsquo;re experts at finding their customers discounts on their auto insurance.&nbsp; It may be possible for you to save hundreds of dollars a year on a new policy, or get a discount to save on your current policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though gas prices have been down from their record highs of a few years ago, it&rsquo;s still important to limit your gas expenses as much as possible.&nbsp; One of the best ways to do this is to stop buying premium gasoline. For many years, premium gasoline was sold as a product that would help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-insurnace"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymidatlantic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}