How much gasoline do you use?
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.
We probably spend about that in gas (maybe a little more)...but it isn't small change for us.
I pay for myself, my wife, and gas for 3 kids cars. We spend about 1000 a month for gas. Whatever.
Jesus...that would put us out of house and home. I'll start bracing myself for when our kids start driving.
[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]
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.
Perhaps your son will have his own job and pay for his own gas?
case, don't worry. By the time your son is old enough to drive there won't be any gas.
:lol2:
true.
Perhaps your son will have his own job and pay for his own gas?
Don't count on it.
Put the kid on steroids now, so he won't need any gas.... or elevators.
Don't count on it.
Wish you'd been around to tell my dad that when I was growing up. ;)
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 admire parents who help their children get educated, if they can. Bravo.
Our second enters college this fall. Beginning this fall we will have 2 kids on the active college level payroll for the next 6 years. The last one plans on medical school so this could go on for a while.
Ouch! That's a LOT of moola! You have spoken to your children about caring for you when you're 100 years old, right? :)
Ouch! That's a LOT of moola! You have spoken to your children about caring for you when you're 100 years old, right? :)
No but we did tell them they had one chance to make it in college and do it in 4 years. No professional college students. No college, they are on their own financially. The had the choice upon graduation from HS to join the military of their choice, or something similar where I do not support them, or go straight to college for 4 years. After that the money goes back to us. If they fail to complete college then all loans are theirs and they have to pay us back. If they finish the school we pay off the loans.
Wow, what an awesome deal, Merc. Will you adopt me?
Maybe when my son is old enough to drive, there won't be any college? Nah, that's not plausible.
Wow, what an awesome deal, Merc. Will you adopt me?
Maybe we can work out an "exchange"? :bj: :bj2: :bj3: :bj4:
:D
60 MILES one way, unless i take the turnpike. then its more like 75.
$130 + or - in tolls per month, too.
fuel economy is important to me. When gas leaped up a dollar a couple summers ago, I had just taken a Titan for a demo. that hurt.
I live three miles from work. Less, maybe.
I don't actually know how much gas I use each week ... I use as much as I need. I don't keep track of it.
uh . . . how many gallons in a tank? :)
Unless I do a lot of extra driving, I fill up like once a month. My commute is only about 5 miles roundtrip per day. Not too bad for just me and my little Civic. So, I'm very lucky! Very, very lucky!
Hurray, California sucks!
I bought a diesel jetta to save on fuel costs, but the cost of diesel has spiked so much it's destroyed any monetary savings I might have gained. bah.
uh . . . how many gallons in a tank? :)
Unless I do a lot of extra driving, I fill up like once a month. My commute is only about 5 miles roundtrip per day. Not too bad for just me and my little Civic. So, I'm very lucky! Very, very lucky!
That's 'cause you fly most of the time, though :p
Beest fills the Focus every week =12ish gallons, I fill the Windstar about every other week =23ish gallons.
at today's prices that's $88 a week.
We use Scrip to pay for our gas, though, so at least $3.50 of that goes to the school rather than the gas companies. but I'm a gas price ho. If another station's cheaper I will use that and the school can whistle for it :lol:
use
www.gasbuddy.com to find the cheapest gas in your area.
It's funny -there are many of these images, and most iinclude prices for Regular of less than $2.50 :lol:
My work truck ( F350) gets 12.9 mpg , I drive on average 1000 miles a week , The tank holds 40 gallons , I generly fill up every other day , but some time twice a day , But the company pays for this gas .
My Wifes car ( Mitz Outlander ) gets in the high 20's low 30's , holds about 14-15 gallons , she fills up about every 2 weeks , we pay for this
LOL! I was just thinking about the "flying" thing today. It's just very "swoopy" and fun sometimes.
Is that because you're a Cloud? Or am I missing the point?
He who goes forth with a fifth on the fourth may not go forth on the fifth.
she who drinks a fifth should not be driving, either
I spend precisely NOTHING!
Perhaps in a onth I should factor in the cost of diesel for the occasional bus journey, but even that is >$20.
This weekend is a biggie for me in terms of fuel consumption on my behalf - back home to my parents.
Bus to North Greenwich.
Tube to Finchley Road, change, then Tube to Amersham.
Then picked up by my Daddy for 20 mile trip home.
Okay I fell into living where I live, and working where I work.
But I am very pleased about it [/smug]
I drive about 500 miles a week for my commute. My vehicle gets about 22mpg. So i am buying 20 some gallons of gas a week.
But soon enough......I will have a Toyota Prius.
Combined, the Spouse and I use 5 or 6 gallons a week, he to work, me to errands and a twice weekly Meals on Wheels route, but if we go anywhere else than in town then the amount doubles or triples.
not as much since I stopped using it to mop my floors with
I spend precisely NOTHING!
Perhaps in a onth I should factor in the cost of diesel for the occasional bus journey, but even that is >$20.
This weekend is a biggie for me in terms of fuel consumption on my behalf - back home to my parents.
Bus to North Greenwich.
Tube to Finchley Road, change, then Tube to Amersham.
Then picked up by my Daddy for 20 mile trip home.
Okay I fell into living where I live, and working where I work.
But I am very pleased about it [/smug]
You use it alright, you just pay for it differently, and more cheaply and efficiently. Good on you.:)
You use it alright, you just pay for it differently, and more cheaply and efficiently. Good on you.:)
Oh yes, I'm not being holier-than-thou
It's more luck than judgement, but I am pleased about the outcome
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. :greenface
Does anyone think the price will ever go back down? Even a dollar reduction would help.
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)
Hey, Newsweek stole the very arguments I was making a couple of days ago, except I recall I said $8/gal, with excess profits subsidizing mass trans, 2-wheeled vehicle lanes, work from home jobs, alt energy, and other proactive research. Yes, I would complain about the price with everyone else but take a bit of comfort believing the bucks were going to a better cause than one industry's bottom line.
And gas consumption is up 18 percent from a decade ago.
I wonder how many more cars on the road from a decade ago?
I drive 750 miles per week just to go to work, I'm supposed to get a new car soon, a Toyota Yarris, supplied by the company I work for, but until then I have to ride my Jeep to work and it's costing me around $120.00 a week . That put a dent in the budget.
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.
So this is my fault now? Fuck that. How to: put the blame back on the American people for the intentional lack of access to alternative fuels. Spin.
So it will be my fault too when there is a food shortage to go along with the gas hikes too, I suppose.
When that happens I will say "screw that" too.
I will not accept blame for big oils greed. I don't care how you would like to spin it.
I drive 750 miles per week just to go to work, I'm supposed to get a new car soon, a Toyota Yarris, supplied by the company I work for, but until then I have to ride my Jeep to work and it's costing me around $120.00 a week . That put a dent in the budget.
I just got a Yaris! I get about 33-35 mpg "city" driving, so hopefully it'll help you.
(Know those stupid commercials for...whichever car it is, that the people keep pulling up on the wrong side of the pump to get gas? Yeah. I keep doing that, cause I don't fill up nearly as often, and my gas cap is on the opposite side as my old car. Very embarassing. Ahem.)
I don't have a car so 0 gallons a week.
I would imagine that fuel efficiency technology and alternative methods will skyrocket in the near future but unfortunately most of the "alternative" methods today are not any better (biofuels) or very expensive and non-attractive (electric).
It will also be interesting to see how the politics of high gas prices turn out. Will "blood for oil" become more acceptable or will people want the government to help invest in alternative methods?
Listen, there's this guy in France who is marketing a car with a bloody great citerne (chamber) instead of a fuel tank which is about the same size, which you pump full of compressed air and that air pressure propels the the car. Not the same high performance as the usual aspirated engines but it gets you from A to B. He's trying to factory line it but as usual without main industry backers. See it on BBC news.com. Now let's just say that some petrolium gasoline engine has to compress the air but hell it's a start! Where's the hydrogen engine at by the way? That sounds good to me
I answered for gas only. My diesel totals for a typical week go far higher than numbers allow but I can say that I burn in the neighborhood of 200 gallons per day in team driving. National average diesel price is up to $4.349.
I'm using about 9 gal/wk. I think I paid $3.63 last night, ouchy.
About 30 US gallons.
Im paying approx $1.69 per litre of diesel.
So, thats $4.50ish a gallon.
Yeah diesel, zippy.
SUV style
[COLOR=Red]Where's the hydrogen engine at by the way?[/COLOR] That sounds good to me
Hydrogen fuel emits water as a by product. Water is the biggest greenhouse gas. Hydrogen fuel will accelerate global warming.
I thought republicans were the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases.
Edit: In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that I used to be a republican.
Math problem for you smart at math people:
My trip here was around 110 miles; 220 rt. I get about 10 mpg. We are reimbursed .505/mile. How much profit will I make off this trip. Today, gas was 3.59.
Profit is kidding; we all know the standards include wear and tear on your automobile...ours was finally updated about 2 years ago.
All answers must be in abouts since I am obviously oblivious to my own personal economics re: gas mileage etc.
Shawnee what are you driving??? I think we can get a closer estimate of your mpg, no way are you getting only 10.
Yea...I just noticed that...What are you driving?
I have an alternative fuel that I am going to use. I plan to run my next car off of Radar's hot stinking air.
:D
Oh, sorry.
It's a 1996 Olds Cutlass Supreme. It runs really rough. When I idle it jumps around like a Mexican jumping bean or a mexican jumping a fence. I'm sure 10 was a low estimate but it is in the "sucks" range.
:)
Cic: hot air. you kill me!
My guess is around $70 but don't ask to see my work.
Math problem for you smart at math people:
My trip here was around 110 miles; 220 rt. I get about 10 mpg. We are reimbursed .505/mile. How much profit will I make off this trip. Today, gas was 3.59.
Profit is kidding; we all know the standards include wear and tear on your automobile...ours was finally updated about 2 years ago.
All answers must be in abouts since I am obviously oblivious to my own personal economics re: gas mileage etc.
It costs you 79.20 to drive 220m round trip at 22 gallons a rt. You get $110 for the 220m. Profit = $30.80
Ok I got 52.62 because I calculated 15mpg average because I know there is no way it could be 10.
A better guess would be at about 18mpg....Which means you will have made 66.23 ....but both of those are really bad gas mileage averages and jinx's is probably closer to the truth.
Ah well...heh...The good old oldsmobile.....
I went with 20mpg.... she's got to be getting at least 20 hwy.
Yeppers....!! But you already calculated 20....and I wasn't going with 21 or 22..That's what I was getting. Until I blew the engine the other day. Now I'm lucky I get anywhere with any amount of gas.
:)
That's what I was getting. Until I blew the engine the other day.
How does not blow an engine (without being phallic)? And why are methane expenditures also relevant (just moving the thread somewhere)?
How does not blow an engine (without being phallic)? And why are methane expenditures also relevant (just moving the thread somewhere)?
How does not blow an engine? wtf?
Your other question, that is actually readable, answer: I have been complaining a lot lately about the price of gas for my commute lately. I had forgotten how lucky I was to have a functioning car. The price of gas is going to pale in comparison for what I have to spend on a new vehicle, all of a sudden, and I should have been grateful that I even had one. How does this relate to the conversation? Not only am I going to have to find another vehic. pronto., one of the first qualifiers will be gas efficiency, when it never has been in the past.
Thanks for asking.
Now that I
might have your attention:
Thank you for responding to me and various others, in other threads...You are very easy to talk to, especially when being asked direct questions.
:cool:
Cic, I have a 12 yr old car that gets me in the mid 20 per gallon - I am so ready for a new car, but I'm having trouble justifying the cost for the same or decreased mileage. It just doesn't seem right to me. On the other hand being newly single I want a better car than I have. lookin at the Mazda 3 or the Nissan Sentra sport right now.
In that case, classicman, why don't you get a car with the highest fuel economy you can find?
Because of the limited supply of green matter
[COLOR="SeaGreen"]$$$$$MONEY$$$$$[/COLOR]
How does not blow an engine? wtf?
Your other question, that is actually readable, answer: I have been complaining a lot lately about the price of gas for my commute lately. I had forgotten how lucky I was to have a functioning car. The price of gas is going to pale in comparison for what I have to spend on a new vehicle, all of a sudden, and I should have been grateful that I even had one. How does this relate to the conversation? Not only am I going to have to find another vehic. pronto., one of the first qualifiers will be gas efficiency, when it never has been in the past.
Thanks for asking.
Now that I might have your attention:
Thank you for responding to me and various others, in other threads...You are very easy to talk to, especially when being asked direct questions.
:cool:
Cic, I have a 12 yr old car that gets me in the mid 20 per gallon - I am so ready for a new car, but I'm having trouble justifying the cost for the same or decreased mileage. It just doesn't seem right to me. On the other hand being newly single I want a better car than I have. lookin at the Mazda 3 or the Nissan Sentra sport right now.
In that case, classicman, why don't you get a car with the highest fuel economy you can find?
My next car :heartpump
A used car dealer down the street from us had a grey-market Smart car for sale for a while. It was something like $38,000...jeez!
BigV, when I was in Germany last summer I saw lots of Smarts.
This is what I've been driving the last 5 years (but in blue).
Shawnee, you are $32 ahead.
220 x.505= 111.10 your reimbursement
220/10= 22 the gallons of gas you used
22*3.59= 78.98 the money you spent on gas
111.10-78.98 = 32.12 how much you have left from your reimbursement after you pay your self back.
D'oh, Merc already 'splained you. never mind
And I believe she could be getting 10mpg in her car. I've had vehicles like that.
I drive about 500 miles a week for my commute. My vehicle gets about 22mpg. So i am buying 20 some gallons of gas a week.
But soon enough......I will have a Toyota Prius.
bigw00dy, did you ever get the Prius?
bigw00dy, did you ever get the Prius?
More importantly did you pay sticker price or a premium on top of that. News has it that dealers are charging a premium for green cars to make up for losses.
No, not yet. I shoulda jumped when I originally made the post. They are next-to-impossible to come about now.
I still can't justify it anyway. I have no payments on my current vehicle.
And my current vehicle (99 toyo pickup w/ 300k miles) will bring absolutely no money on a trade in.
But the gas prices are making me feel trapped in a corner, sprinkled with a little confusion....
But the gas prices are making me feel trapped in a corner, sprinkled with a little confusion....
I think they refill that confusion shaker every time someone like me comes along...they say "Say when" and I just get out a good novel...wait...what were we talking about?
If I work all day on the blue sky mine, there'll be food on the table tonight.
Did I ask this already? IF so, apologies.
I've been reading about and hearing about hybrid cars. All these great promises that the car will get like, 35 MPG. Huh? My 1990 CRX got THAT, and it was the sports model. There was an HF version that got around 50.
So, WHY do you now have to get a hybrid to get the mileage you used to be able to get with a smaller car?
I smell something akin to planned obsolescence re: gas refills.
Cars are much bigger now.
You look at a car like the Honda Accord and follow its size over the years, and you would be amazed at how big they have grow.
Hatchbacks are making a comeback, but there
aren't nearly as many as there used to be in the 80s.
My mom had a Ford Festiva back in the mid 80s and early 90s.
38 city, 40 hwy.
That car was awesome. I got to borrow it for a year. I'm 6'2" and I had tons of headroom in this car. I once bought a full sized recliner chair at Goodwill and brought it home in the back of the Festiva. I folded the back seat down, and had to move the driver's seat forward a little, but it fit completely inside with the back hatch closed. A freaking Lazy Boy!
The back seats were a little small, but they were fine. I rode on a couple long trips back there. It was an awesome around town car. Could park it anywhere.
I would love to have a modern version of this car with air bags. Smart Car is probably the closest thing, but is too small. Only carries 2 passengers.
I agree with what glatt posted. Cars also have a lot more safety features, like air bags, ABS, side impact protection, CHMSLs, etc., which add weight. And cars have a lot more power than they did 20 years ago.
My car weighs 1860 pounds and has a 1-liter engine. I think these things are more important than the fact that it's a hybrid in determining fuel economy.
So, besides safety features and in spite of our penchant for bigger is better, they could still make cars that get decent gas mileage?
As far as power, that little Honda had more get up and go than many of the more expensive sports cars I've seen.
Except for some of the pinstriping I had (and possibly the pirelli tires which I replaced once before opting for a cheaper tire),
this website has a car that looks like mine did. I would consider buying a brand NEW car if they started manufacturing these again.
Notice the similarities between the Honda CRX and the Insight:
Cool! 70 mpg? Those are out of production too, but if I am ever in the position to look for a car I will see if I can find a used one (brand new cars depreciate the second you drive them off the lot anyway.)
I googled that and read that they went out of production because so many are not interested in the two-door/2 seater, which makes sense, and more people were going for a prius or a honda civic hybrid.
With no kids I don't even need two seats. ;)
Cool! 70 mpg? Those are out of production too, but if I am ever in the position to look for a car I will see if I can find a used one (brand new cars depreciate the second you drive them off the lot anyway.)
I googled that and read that they went out of production because so many are not interested in the two-door/2 seater, which makes sense, and more people were going for a prius or a honda civic hybrid.
With no kids I don't even need two seats. ;)
If you live where it's flat you might get 70 mpg. I live where it's not so flat and get about 67.
It's way flat!
Like the Flatskills, man. Flat Diego. Cincinflatti. Flatcramento.
Uh, never mind. That joke fell flat.
A friend of mine was building Fiestas from Fiestas for quite a while. Tough little cars. The Toyota Echo I traded in last fall was getting low 40's consistantly. It didn't measure up to my big American lifestyle. I like not being crushed by absurdly large SUV's with distracted er multi-tasking drivers. The Flattskills line was sufficient. :)
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Sgt. Tom Bruce said the doctor was arrested and booked for investigation of brandishing a deadly weapon in a rude, angry or threatening manner, a misdemeanor.
Witnesses told police the doctor was in line at the pumps Monday evening when another vehicle cut in front of him. When the doctor confronted the motorist with a tire iron, the other driver locked himself in his car and called police.
