{"id":755,"date":"2015-02-26T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T20:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/?p=755"},"modified":"2015-02-26T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T20:57:26","slug":"what-are-you-doing-with-the-money-you-are-saving-on-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/26\/what-are-you-doing-with-the-money-you-are-saving-on-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Doing With the Money You Are Saving on Gas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcan.gc.ca\/home\">National Resources Canada<\/a>, the average vehicle in Manitoba travels 14,963 km per year, and for every 100 of those kilometers it travels, it consumes 11.2 litres of gasoline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hand-pumping-gas-into-car.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-756\" alt=\"hand-pumping-gas-into-car\" src=\"http:\/\/creditaid-2017.home.justinwiebe.ca\/components\/com_wordpress\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hand-pumping-gas-into-car-300x225.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hand-pumping-gas-into-car-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hand-pumping-gas-into-car.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today\u2019s gas price (about 88 cents per litre as of this writing) is far lower than the 2014 high in Winnipeg &#8211; $1.33 per litre in June of 2014. At this rate, the average driver is saving about $755 this year, if gas prices stay about the same.<\/p>\n<p>What are you going to do with the money you save?<\/p>\n<p>You could go on a short vacation, or buy a nice toy. Or sock it away for a rainy day. Most people, however, will just absorb the money in to their daily expenditures, and not really notice that it\u2019s there. An extra cup of coffee every day.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"\/let-us-help-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creditaid<\/a>, we\u2019ve got a different idea. Knowing how many people struggle with <a href=\"\/let-us-help-you\/credit-card-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credit card debt<\/a>, we\u2019d suggest using your windfall from lower gas prices to help reduce the credit card, loan, or line of credit with the least favourable interest terms. You\u2019ll then be putting the money you\u2019re saving on fuel to its best possible use \u2013 bettering your financial position now and in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Creditaid is a <a href=\"\/who-is-creditaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proudly local solution to debt problems<\/a>. If you\u2019re finding yourself overwhelmed by debts, <a href=\"\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make an appointment to speak confidentially<\/a> to one of our expert credit counselors.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve helped many of our Winnipeg neighbours with customized solutions to eliminate their debt, including debt consolidation and debt management programs. We will help you with your current financial crisis, and give you the tools you need to ensure that you don\u2019t have a recurrence in the future.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to National Resources Canada, the average vehicle in Manitoba travels 14,963 km per year, and for every 100 of those kilometers it travels, it consumes 11.2 litres of gasoline. Today\u2019s gas price (about 88 cents per litre as of this writing) is far lower than the 2014 high in Winnipeg &#8211; $1.33 per litre &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/26\/what-are-you-doing-with-the-money-you-are-saving-on-gas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Are You Doing With the Money You Are Saving on Gas?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[78,93,101,161,267,343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}