Can Nitrogen Gas Save Fuel For Your Car?

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There is a relatively new strategy that you might consider that supposedly will save you fuel and money. It actually is utilizing one gas to save another gas. The gas you save is the liquid gas you fill your car with. The gas that saves this liquid gas is nitrogen.

Airlines have used this strategy on their jets and planes. Race cars have used nitrogen for a long time. Even big mass merchandiser retail outlets are starting to make it available to their customers.

Now you may be saying to yourself, alright already, what is this all about? It is all about the new rage in car and truck tires. That new rage is filling your tires up with nitrogen instead of air.

Filling tires with nitrogen instead of air is becoming so popular that even Costco now offers it to its customers when they buy new tires. Why do people want to fill their tires with nitrogen? What do they know that we don't? Why do race cars and jets use nitrogen?

Here is what nitrogen is supposed to do. It is supposed to keep your tires inflated at the proper level longer than air will. Apparently nitrogen seeps out of your tires at a rate reported to be three times slower than air. The logic here is that if your tires are maintained at the proper pressure for a longer period of time then you will save gas because under inflated tires increase friction and decrease fuel economy.

The proponents of nitrogen also state that aside from the fuel saving benefits there are other benefits to using nitrogen. Nitrogen supposedly runs cooler than air. Therefore your tires will run cooler and there will be less expansion in the tire. That means that your tires will require less maintenance and may experience longer life.

Less internal corrosion of the rubber and the rim are other benefits that advocates of nitrogen use explain. Because air contains oxygen it naturally begins to oxidize objects it is in contact with. The tire rim will be oxidizing or rusting when it is exposed to the air in the tire. The tire walls itself are also oxidizing and breaking down.

If you fill a tire with pure nitrogen then there is no oxygen in the tire. The result: no oxidation will occur. The claimed benefit? Your tires should be safer and last longer.

Can these claims true? Can nitrogen be a panacea for your tires? It is certainly worth an in depth investigation. As of right now, the Jury is still out.

About the Author:
Scott Siegel is the author of a 143 page manual of automotive industry insider secrets on saving gas and dollars at the pump (beatthegaspump.com). Visit us to discover how you can get better gas mileage. Find out how to increase gas mileage.
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