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? :)