How many times have you tanked up your car this year?
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I've probably filled up about eight times this year. I think it's worked out at about 47mpg (UK Gallons).
It usually costs about £40 to top up from my usual mark on the tank.
It usually costs about £40 to top up from my usual mark on the tank.
Christ, I get 3 gallons in mine and it costs me £17, that's $25 to you. I get through that in a week generally.
What are you riding?
I'm one of those anal-retentives that keeps a logbook (and wrote a program for my calculator to do the math). 8 fill-ups this year in about 2600 miles. My Ford Contour SVT (Mondeo to you Europeans) holds 14.6 gallons and most of the fill-ups are 12+ gallons. I know the car very well after 105,000 miles and 10 years. The average milage over the life of the car is just over 28 MPG. My driving is as conservative as my politics are liberal (and both work really well for me).
I have no idea how many times I have filled the car this year so far! Wow, I feel so inadequate.
I have however, probably filled up in the last 2 weeks about 5xs, possible more. I am having to drive my daughter to FAU for a summer class required for her high school and it is 80+ round trip 3xs a week.
so that has definitely put a dent in the montly budget. But usually I fill up once a week or like Holdfast, every 5 days or so. Just depends on what I have scheduled.
I have however, probably filled up in the last 2 weeks about 5xs, possible more. I am having to drive my daughter to FAU for a summer class required for her high school and it is 80+ round trip 3xs a week.
so that has definitely put a dent in the montly budget. But usually I fill up once a week or like Holdfast, every 5 days or so. Just depends on what I have scheduled.
Just about every week. Last year they moved my office from 10 miles away, and on a decent bus route, to 30 miles away. I have a 99 Camry, which gets around 24 MPG which isn't bad, but it's a lot of miles.
Sadly it would take nearly 2 hours each way and I would have to do a bus/train combo which would cost about $12 per day.
Sadly it would take nearly 2 hours each way and I would have to do a bus/train combo which would cost about $12 per day.
Once or Twice a week.
Ah! The Sho-Rin! So good to hear from you! And in my thread. **sigh**
Yeah, we have a log book, for each car. And a spread sheet to total the money spent on gas v. maintenance v. repair. Of course, with a 3 year old Toyota (no recall on it) and only 16,000 miles, there's only been oil changes.
The Sho-Rin, aren't you in Orange County? My memory sucks. We're going to be there in late July, after the Bar exam. It'd be swell for me and Hubby to meet you and Mrs. Sho-Rin.
Thats US gallons, mate (3.78 liters). I ride a 200cc Honda twinstar that I bought many years ago. I put a fairing trunk and hard bags on it to make it more practical as a commuter,errand, bike. I got a picture somewhere....
ZERO. Don't make that kind of money. Would probably take between 40 and 50 dollars to fill 'er up.
I've never quite understood this line of thinking. I noticed others mentioning it too upthread.
Whether you fill up the tank or just stick in $5, you're going to end up paying the same total amount over the month. Even if you get paid weekly or fortnightly instead of monthly and you barely use the car, it's still going to even out the same. You'll just have a run of a few weeks where you save some dollars by not needing to fill up, to make up for the one week where you do need to get gas. Separating out payments makes sense if you expect a large & imminent drop in gas prices (I've done it myself in that situation, and conversely, have deliberately filled up early if I'm expected a big hike in prices soon), but most of the time, movements will be pretty marginal and even out.
If you're doing it for the increase in mpg you're going to just because the car is lighter, well, that's going to be minimal isn't it? I mean, that theoretical 0.5% or whatever extra mpg it works out to be as is going to be totally swamped by random stuff like whether you hit a red light on your drive or not.
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