Can Nitrogen Gas Save Fuel for Your Car?

By Scott Siegel

http://www.beatthegaspump.com

A new strategy that is being talked about claims that it will save you gasoline and dollars and more. In essence it is using one kind of gas to save another kind of gas. The gas you will save is the liquid gasoline you fill your car with. The gas you use is nitrogen instead of plain old 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.

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.
 

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