Can Nitrogen Gas Save Fuel for Your Car?

There is a new strategy that everyone is talking about to save gas and money and more. Actually it is using one type of gas to save another type of gas. The gas you save is the liquid gas you fuel your car with. The gas you would use is nitrogen instead of air.

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.

Alright already, what is this strategy? It is the new rage in truck and car tires. It is using nitrogen in your tires instead of air.

This new idea of inflating tires with nitrogen is becoming so popular that now Costco offers nitrogen fill ups for their customers as an option when they buy new tires. Why would you want to fill your tires with nitrogen? Why do race cars and jets use nitrogen? Is there something they know that we don't?

Nitrogen is supposed to offer some advantages over air. It is claimed to keep your tires at the proper pressure longer than air will. Allegedly nitrogen loss from your tires is at a rate of up to three times slower than air. The thinking here is that if your tires are at the correct pressure for longer then you will save gasoline because under pressurized tires increase friction and decrease gas economy.

The supporters of nitrogen use say that aside from the gas saving benefits there are other benefits. Nitrogen supposedly runs at cooler temperatures than air. That means your tires will run at a cooler temperature and that means less expansion in the tire. The result of that is your tires should require less maintenance and could have a longer life.

Corrosion protection of the rim and of the tire itself are other claimed benefits . Air contains oxygen so it begins to oxidize anything it is in contact with. Rims of your tires will be oxidizing or rusting because it is exposed to the oxygen in the tire. The walls of the tire itself begin oxidizing and breaking down with exposure to oxygen.

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.

Are these claims true? Is nitrogen a wonder drug for your tires? It is certainly worth a thorough investigation. The Jury is still out on this.

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