Tuscon, AZ residents are savvy when it comes to saving, but what about cheap car insurance? People go online to compare prices and buy used textbooks, take trips to thrift and second-hand shops for the best deals they can find on like-new back to school clothes for their kids. They carefully scan through endless piles of junk mail to find weekly fliers in their mailboxes for coupons and sales on notebooks, backpacks, and computers. But are these people penny-wise and pound foolish, as the old saying goes? Many of these same people forget to compare auto insurance rates and lose out on hundreds of dollars each year that they could be saving by getting a car insurance quote.

What is the point of people in Tuscon, AZ taking all that extra time to scrimp and tighten their belts this fall if it’s all being lost by paying too much for car insurance? It is a shame that so many do not realize that their car insurance company could be taking advantage of them. For example, did you know that some auto insurance companies automatically make your rates for the next six months the same as the six months before, without ever doing any research to see if anything has changed that could get you cheap auto insurance? They sure notice if you get a ticket of course—that makes your premiums go up right away. A car insurance quote right now is what you need.

One driver in Tuscon, AZ said he was required by law to pay for an expensive device and install it in his car.  The device tested his blood-alcohol level before it allowed him to turn on his car at all.  Together with his new expensive auto insurance rates (from a company he’d never heard of, one of the only auto insurance agents willing to insure him at all), he was now spending over a thousand dollars more this year just to drive. It could take several years in Arizona before he is eligible again for cheaper insurance, even if he has perfect driving after the DUI and has no accidents or tickets.  Drinking and driving should not be done because it kills innocent people every year.  But even if you think, “I’ve only had one drink so I’m ok”, ask yourself this question:  Was that a thousand-dollar drink?  No matter how good it was, I bet the answer will be no.  Give up your keys.