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Turn your car into a billboard and earn gas
Turn your car into a billboard and earn gas
02:37 PM CDT on Saturday, June 9, 2007
By SHELLY SLATER / WFAA-TV
FreeGasHelp
Are you cringing every time you fill up your car, tired of the high prices?
Join the club.
But now some Dallas drivers are finding ways to get free gas.
It's all about turning your car into a rolling advertisement.
Amy Petreikis's car is her office.
She drives around selling advertising for a living but now she's become the ad.
"I'm driving around all day watching the gas gauge go down. [I spend] $50 or $60 every few days."
Petreikis's company doesn't reimburse for gas - she's desperate for gas money. So she drives around with an ad on the side of her car.
"I do feel like a driving billboard," she said.
"If gas prices weren't so high, I don't think I would have this on the side of my car."
She gets $35 a month for an ad from Freegashelp.
"[We can give drivers anything] from a small bumper sticker to - we will wrap their car if they want us to, depending on how much gas they want to earn," said a spokesperson from the company.
For a personal car, you can make up to $850 a month.
Would Petreikis add more, if gas prices went up.
"With this big car, I guess I could. With gas prices going up the way they have been, there's definitely a chance. If I have one, what's another?"
02:37 PM CDT on Saturday, June 9, 2007
By SHELLY SLATER / WFAA-TV
FreeGasHelp
Are you cringing every time you fill up your car, tired of the high prices?
Join the club.
But now some Dallas drivers are finding ways to get free gas.
It's all about turning your car into a rolling advertisement.
Amy Petreikis's car is her office.
She drives around selling advertising for a living but now she's become the ad.
"I'm driving around all day watching the gas gauge go down. [I spend] $50 or $60 every few days."
Petreikis's company doesn't reimburse for gas - she's desperate for gas money. So she drives around with an ad on the side of her car.
"I do feel like a driving billboard," she said.
"If gas prices weren't so high, I don't think I would have this on the side of my car."
She gets $35 a month for an ad from Freegashelp.
"[We can give drivers anything] from a small bumper sticker to - we will wrap their car if they want us to, depending on how much gas they want to earn," said a spokesperson from the company.
For a personal car, you can make up to $850 a month.
Would Petreikis add more, if gas prices went up.
"With this big car, I guess I could. With gas prices going up the way they have been, there's definitely a chance. If I have one, what's another?"
I haven't read the site closely enough to find out what their outlook is on people like Harrison, who drive the mechanical equivalent of an accordian.
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