Win $5,000 Create 2-Minute Road Trip Video

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, 2009;

You know how you always say, "I could do better than that!" when someone else walks off with a big prize? Now's your chance to prove it and claim the $5,000 grand prize, an exciting VIP NASCAR or Indy race package, or a transportation package including new tires and memberships in AAA and the Silver Spoke League of American Bicyclists.

And the first 80 entrants whose videos meet the contest criteria -- including footage illustrating one or more of the campaign's fuel-efficiency tips and the September 20 contest deadline -- will receive a $25 ExxonMobil Gift Card and a Car Care Council Car Care Guide.

Just grab your video, digital, or cell phone camera and start shooting, because the odds of winning a video contest are very high, according to contest expert Sandra Grauschopf's step-by-step article, "How To Win Video Contests -- Tips to Create Contest-Winning Videos" on about.com (http://bit.ly/ja664). Grauschopf manages a professional sweepstakes website, a contests forum, and the about.com contest site.

To assemble creative entries, Drive Smarter Challenge video contest entrants can use a host of downloadable video, images, and audio elements from the Drive Smarter Challenge broadband media web site -- http://drivesmarterchallenge.org/broadband. To enter, submit a video of two minutes or less that illustrates one or more of the Drive Smarter Challenge gas- and money-saving driving and vehicle maintenance tips (http://drivesmarterchallenge.org/money-saving-tips/Default.aspx).

  To enter the contest:
  --  Log on to www.drivesmarterchallenge.org and click on the "Video
      Contest" banner (or link) or click on
      www.drivesmarterchallenge.org/contest/;
  --  Follow the on-screen entry instructions (including completing the
      Official Entry form in its entirety);
  --  Upload your own original video of two minutes or less that describes
      how drivers can save money and/or help the environment by using one of
      the tips found at
      http://drivesmarterchallenge.org/money-saving-tips/Default.aspx;
  --  Check the box indicating that you have read and agree to these
      Official Rules; and

  --  Click on "Submit" to complete your entry.

  Only one entry per person, and you must be at least 18 to compete.

The online video contest is the latest feature of the award-winning Drive Smarter Challenge fuel-efficiency campaign (www.drivesmarterchallenge.org) sponsored by the Alliance to Save Energy (www.ase.org) and 16 other diverse nonprofit, governmental, trade association, and for-profit partners. The contest runs through September 20, 2009 at 11:59 pm EDT.

Along with encouraging consumers to exercise their creativity, the video contest will further the fuel-efficiency campaign's goals of helping drivers save money at the gas pump by driving smarter, properly maintaining their vehicles, and driving fewer miles by combining errands, biking, telecommuting, walking, carpooling, or taking public transit.

Where can you find these creative videos? Not (yet) on YouTube, but on the Drive Smarter Challenge video contest website (http://drivesmarterchallenge.org/contest).