- Heater and defroster – make sure they work properly.
- Save gas Lights and flashing hazard lights – see if they work.
- Save gas Oil - check for level, and weight. Make sure you have either a high-viscosity or multi-viscosity oil rated for winter use.
- save gas Thermostat – check if operational.

http://www.savegaspros.com/articles/how-to-improve-gas-mileage.php

However, you may do better with a car alternator.

I live in the city but still have a 5000 watt gasoline one I can hook up to the furnace, a couple of lights and the freezer. We had power out for about 14 hours during a ice storm and it worked great. but I had to keep refuelling it every 5 hours or so.

You don’t really think that the electricity that is running all of those accessories in your car is naturally renewable electricity, do ya?

When your engine is running… maybe I’m getting ahead of myself here…

Do you have a car? Have you ever heard that thing that makes a noise when you put the key in and turn it? Well, that’s the engine. Without getting too technical, it makes your car “go”.

When your engine is, well… “going”, it is also making other things “go”. One of those thingy’s is a round thing that has some other things in it. These things work together to make - you guessed it - ELECTRICITY. Yeahhhhh!

Now, this is DC electricity and it can be stored in a battery that is just a little bigger than a lunchbox and about as heavy as if you had 50 bologna sandwiches in your lunchbox, heck maybe more! Anyway, that battery and the electricity that round thingy “generates”, is what powers your radio and the lights and other cool stuff in your car.

So I guess what I’m saying here is - that all this comes from a simple twist of the key, and that there is some weird combination of metals in the key that supplies this endless source of electricity, and that if you can run wires from the filament of your taillight bulb to an outlet in your house, you should be able to watch TV off of that magic key.

Don’t lose that key!