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?

:lol2:
true.

Don't count on it.

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

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? :)

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.

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!

tax

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.

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.

http://www.evpowersystems.com/Gas%20...0and%20Leg.jpg



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?

can I take the Fifth?

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

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

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):

(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.

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.

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 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.

Diesel Ducks ???

Yeah diesel, zippy.

SUV style

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.