Chevron's Quarterly Profit Falls on Lower Oil Prices
Chevron says its quarterly profit fell 5 percent in the first quarter as oil prices slipped.
Chevron says its quarterly profit fell 5 percent in the first quarter as oil prices slipped.
Exxon Mobil's quarterly profit edged up, as the world's largest publicly traded oil company's results were helped by higher earnings in its chemicals business.
Savings have fallen this year, as American households in January experienced the worst 1-month income drop since 1993.
Driving to a sale may cancel out the savings on your purchases. Here, our experts break down the costs vs. the gains.
You can improve your gas mileage by as much as 2 percent, simply by removing 100 pounds of of dead weight from your car.
Get the most out of your gas mileage by cutting back on cooling.
We've already shared some ideas from our readers on ways to economize, squeeze extra miles out of your tank, and find surprising discounts. In the final part of this series, we'll take a peek at some of the more unusual methods that you offer for reducing pain at the pump.
Our first collection of readers' gas-saving suggestions looked at methods to help you cut Next, we covered methods for squeezing extra miles out of every tank. This time, DailyFinance looks at discounts and other ways that drivers can actually pay less for each gallon of fuel.
The average American family will spend about $825 more for gas in 2011 than it did in 2010. But for every pain there is a pill, and in this case, a partial cure for the fill-'er-up blues may be to sign up for a gas station credit card. Done the right way, it can result in hefty savings. The key: paying off the balance at the end of each month.
It's almost automatic: As soon as gas prices go up, the media rushes to offer suggestions for saving money on fuel. But rather than recycling all the old familiar ideas, DailyFinance asked its readers for their best suggestions to reduce pain at the pump, and you gave us some unusual options.
Biofuels company Solazyme owns a unique process when it comes to converting algae into a fuel could replace the gas in your car -- a method that could be used to create oil on an extremely large scale and at an extremely low cost. The company has just announced it's going public: You might want to get in on the action.
Once again, gas prices are hitting the stratosphere and, once again, many are dragging out the same old suggestions for saving money at the pump. Have you found any interesting or innovative methods to save money at the gas station? Click inside to give us your feedback.









