With financial difficulties hitting everyone on the food chain, we should all be on the hunt for ways to save a penny or a pound. Thankfully there are many people discovering a way here and there, especially when it comes to owning a car. It has never been cheap to own a car, whether it is the car insurance costs or its maintenance. That does not mean however that there aren’t ways to drive down its current cost and make it more affordable.

Financial advice published today highlighted a number of ways in which one can effectively reduce the costs associated with driving, one of which was choosing to be greener with your car insurance. How you may ask, well interestingly by adding another driver to your insurance does not actually drive the cost up. It may actually reduce your policy’s premium as it shows that you share a car and have contributed to keeping another car off the road.