How much gasoline do you use?

[HungLikeJesus]

How much gasoline (or diesel fuel) do you use during a typical week? Is a large percentage of your income spent on commuting?

I would estimate that I drive about 250 miles per week (and use about 4 gallons of gas), my wife drives about 180 miles (and uses about 7 gallons), for a total of (less than) 11 gallons of gas per week. If gas is $4/gallon, we're spending less than $44 per week on gas.

We spend more than that on alcohol.

[kerosene]

We probably spend about that in gas (maybe a little more)...but it isn't small change for us.

[TheMercenary]

I pay for myself, my wife, and gas for 3 kids cars. We spend about 1000 a month for gas. Whatever.

[kerosene]

Jesus...that would put us out of house and home. I'll start bracing myself for when our kids start driving.

[Shawnee123]

[hyper]I would estimate I spend about 20 bucks a week on alcohol. This makes me not care about spending 4 bucks a gallon on gas. I also estimate that my car gets about 0.245 miles to the gallon. Therefore, I spend about 9 million dollars a week on gas.[/bole]

[HungLikeJesus]

case, don't worry. By the time your son is old enough to drive there won't be any gas.

shawnee, you're driving 630,000 miles per week. You need a job closer to home.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

case, don't worry. By the time your son is old enough to drive there won't be any gas.

true.

[Shawnee123]

Perhaps your son will have his own job and pay for his own gas?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Perhaps your son will have his own job and pay for his own gas?

Don't count on it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Put the kid on steroids now, so he won't need any gas.... or elevators.

[Shawnee123]

Don't count on it.

Wish you'd been around to tell my dad that when I was growing up.

[TheMercenary]

Having 3 kids on the payroll sucks. But I did promise to support them in college. We only pay for school related gas. Any trips they want to take with their cars, they have to pay for the gas and all expenses related to the trip. All 3 cars are paid for so it beats three car payments.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Having 3 kids on the payroll sucks. But I did promise to support them in college. We only pay for school related gas. Any trips they want to take with their cars, they have to pay for the gas and all expenses related to the trip. All 3 cars are paid for so it beats three car payments.

I'll be doing the same next fall. He has been good about taking the bus this year but next year he can drive to college. I'll have the vehicle paid off in a year so I can maybe recoup the cost of gas.

Does anyone think the price will ever go back down? Even a dollar reduction would help.

[HungLikeJesus]

I tend to agree with this guy (from Newsweek):

...
But America's top car dealer says what we really need in this country is high gas prices—something in the neighborhood of $6 a gallon—if we ever really want to tackle the critical issues of the day: global warming and our oil addiction. "The biggest lie in America politics today is to say you care deeply about global warming and advocate for the price of gas to go down," says Mike Jackson, CEO of the AutoNation car dealer chain. "Those are mutually exclusive concepts."

The fact is, as much as we gripe about gas prices, we're pumping just as much of the precious liquid into our tanks as ever. Every day in America we burn through 391 million gallons of motor fuel. That burn rate is the same as last year, when gas prices were 70 cents per gallon lower. And gas consumption is up 18 percent from a decade ago. The federal Energy Information Administration just predicted we would finally begin to curb our consumption this year for the first time since 1991—by an underwhelming 0.3 percent...

(there's more at the link, above)

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

Does anyone think the price will ever go back down? Even a dollar reduction would help.

I think it may continue to go up and down by .25 cents with a continual average increase till it gets around $5.