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Learning, Sharing, and Teaching => Ask a Mustachian => Topic started by: Pizzabrewer on January 18, 2017, 07:27:31 PM
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...and how many gallons/how many dollars is it each time?
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Retired with a Yaris. Every 2 weeks, $23.
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Around every 10 days, $30.
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About every other week, about 15 gallons of premium (~18 gal tank), and about $45. Usually tack on a $10 car wash that drops the price about $.20 a gallon too this time of year, to get the salt off.
My wife spends about the same, smaller tank so she gets ~10 gallons a time every week or so. Also premium, about $30-35/tank.
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Averages to about once per month. A touch under 20 gallons of premium, but usually get a break due to the grocery rewards card taking 20-60 cents off per gallon. My wife fills up about once a month as well, but only about 13 gallons of standard grade. Since her car is more fuel efficient, we tend to take it on trips; that means a couple extra tanks a few times a year.
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Whenever the orange metric fuel level low dash light illuminates. viz,:
(http://kereta.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Warning-Light-Fuel.jpg)
It takes approximately 16 US Gal to fill the tank from there ($30-$40) and that leaves me good-to-go for about 400 stat. miles until it is time to repeat. How many days that is depends on how much I drive, which is quite variable, depending on the needs of my work.
Driving for work is reimbursed @53.5 cents per mile so a whole tankful of business travel converts to about 180 USD to squander on dangling air-fresheners shaped like little trees and colored LED ropes to hang around the passenger windows...
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Usually every 2 weeks, 11 gallon tank. I usually pay with gas gift cards purchased for 20% off.
That's an interesting idea. Where do you find cards at 20% off?
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Roughly every two to three weeks, depending. Last time was Tuesday, $28 for around 12 gallons of regular.
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Every 5-6 days, $20.
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Probably every 2.5 weeks for about $22 a tank and can stretch it to 3-4 weeks when I ride the train. I drive a hybrid.
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It depends heavily on just how snowed in we are this winter...
Usually the car gets filled about once a week with 6-8 gallons. I don't like to run it below half a tank (we live in a rural area), so I'll fill it when I'm out if it's below 5/8ths. I'm planning on replacing most of these miles with a Leaf at some point, once their prices drop enough. Model 3 & Bolt should nicely crater used Leaf prices...
The truck varies wildly. Sometimes I'll fill it twice a month, other times it goes long enough that I have to remember to put winterizer in the rear tank before it gets cold. I'd say it gets filled every 2 months on average, for about $40 (I usually run the front tank down, and a few gallons out of the rear, then refill it). It gets used when we need a truck for something, or a six passenger vehicle. Or, recently, because the car can't get out of the driveway.
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Usually every 2 weeks, 11 gallon tank. I usually pay with gas gift cards purchased for 20% off.
That's an interesting idea. Where do you find cards at 20% off?
Our supermarket runs a promotion probably once or twice a month where you can purchase a $50 gas card for $40 for every $50 of groceries you buy. We time our stockups to coincide with these sales and can usually get 2 cards. 1 card will get us through about a month's worth of driving depending on gas prices.
Bonus: the 50 minimum is before you add coupons so I'll stack high value coupons to get us to the threshold and end up paying much less.
That's great. I used to be happy with my 5% cash back on gas card, but now...
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I use about 6 to 7 gallons every week and I have been paying about $1.85 to $1.99 a gallon.
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12 gallon tank, refilled every 2 weeks or so for about $24.
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I fill it about once every 7-10 days (I drive a lot for work), maybe ~$25 each time. The tank is somewhere around 13 gallons but I usually fill about 10 gallons when I go, I almost never let it get all the way down to empty.
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Once a week, ~16 gallons, whatever the going rate for 89 octane is at the time.
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I fill up when it hits 1/4 tank, just like my daddy taught me.
It takes ~11 gallons to fill up, with a 13 gallon tank. Usually every 3-6 weeks. Costs $35-45. My car demands premium. VROOOOM!
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Twice a week. About 14 gallons each time.
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I started commuting to work on the light-rail in January, so now only once a month maybe, ~15 gallon tank so ~$30.
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Depends on which car I'm driving. The toyota is every three weeks, 16 gallons, and around $40. The smart car is every five/six weeks, 8 gallons (premium) $22.
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Routinely, about once a week. Usually 7-8 gallons and $18-20 these days. Small car with small gas tank and not quite as good MPG as the gas tank size would imply.
If on crazy road trip, about every four hours.
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We go to Costco every friday night.
Put maybe $12 each week into our prius.
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3-4 times/wk. 20-25 gallons at a time of diesel. Seems very unmustachian at first, but it's all a business write off. I deliver baked goods for a living with a pickup and trailer... if I'm driving I'm making money, so I don't sweat it too much. There are other places I try to cut cost.
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~12 gallons roughly every 8 work days unless we go visit grandma. We carpool so the other car sits idle.
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Less than once a month, for about $29 each time.
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Toyota Prius. Try to only fill up once/month but sometimes it's more like around holidays. It's under $20. We drive for vacations though and count that gas in our vacation budget since that is optional. We could fly or just not take vacation.
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Approximately 1 time a month without considering a trip to my parents house in a town about 160 miles away from where I live. I do that about every other month which generally leads me to an additional 2 fill ups.
ETA 10 gallons normally so less than $30 a fill up.
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Average over the year to about once per month. $30-40. We are a 1 car household with three adults using the same vehicle (for a few months), occasional use by another sibling, and when my in-laws are in town they have free rein to use the vehicle. In general, we use it 1-2 per week (currently), more when the in-laws are visiting.
I think the last time we filled it up was sometime before the holidays? Have a little under half a tank.
FWIW, individually I put more miles on my bike than we collectively do in our car. So does my husband, and the sibling who has shared use of the car while he's in town.
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Every 3-4 weeks for me, depending on how much I drive out of town for outdoor sports.
Cost varies, but it's a 12 gallon tank, usually fill around 11 gallons.
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http://i.imgur.com/9o4PW9Z.png
I drove another car through most of the summer, though.
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Costco every week with only about 1/4 tank left. It has been right around $20 for 10 gallons or so.
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35-40 gallons every 5-8 weeks. When it gets low I try to keep an eye on prices for a while and see if the trend is up or down and where the lowest price is.
If it's been nice weather and I'm on the bike 2 gal/wk unless I go for a longer pleasure ride on the weekend then double or triple that.
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Unfortunately we need to figure out how to improve this. January so far:
19-Jan-17 $37.75 Speedway
15-Jan-17 $20.01 Gulf Oil
13-Jan-17 $40.10 Speedway
9-Jan-17 $38.96 Byrne Dairy
6-Jan-17 $17.56 Byrne Dairy
4-Jan-17 $38.51 Byrne Dairy
4-Jan-17 $22.02 Gulf Oil
4-Jan-17 $9.02 Speedway
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Every week or so. About $8.
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Roughly every 7-8 weeks. The interwebs tell me my tank holds 11 gallons, and I Usually fill up when it is below 1/4 tank, but before the light comes one, so maybe 9.5 gallons? I don't really pay attention to the amount, or to the price, because buying on bas is way cheaper than buying on the economy, and I can't not buy gas, so the exact price is irrelevant.
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Once a week. Every Wednesday morning before work. Usually between 4 and 5 gallons in a 2013 Honda Fit. I don't like to let it get low since the fuel in the tank cools the fuel pump. I'd like to avoid having to replace that prematurely. I know the gas tank is under the front seat and I'm not sure how much of the car you would need to dismantle to get to the pump.
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Only when I drive out of state.
(Unless plugging it in counts.)
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Once a week
20$
10gal tank
44 mile round trip to and from work
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I fill up every 10 days
15 gallons, ~$42-45 per tank.
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Every 5-6 days approx $10.
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Maybe once every month or two?
I figured out that driving a truck (Silverado) and working from home is far more "green" than any Prius driver who commutes an hour to work every day.
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Every 3-4 weeks or so. $30-40 for 11-12 gallons of 93 octane
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If you meant to say "refuel" then the answer is every night, when I plug in. We average 83 cents worth of power each recharge, about $25 per month. It works out to about 2.5 cents per mile.
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Sol, what car do you drive? Is there a lot of variation in the energy efficiency of electric cars? Just curious.
It's a 2012 Leaf SL: http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/buying-a-nissan-leaf/
There are variations in efficiencies to be had in the motor design (the Teslas lose on this front) but the associated range loss is easily overcome with a larger battery pack.
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Rav4 in a rural area. I fill up every 2 weeks unless we drive for a special trip out of town. Its about 24.00 a visit.
I budget 50.00 a month for gas. Husband's gas is all covered by his employer....I don't even want to think about how much gas he puts on his employer gas card. He probably fills up anywhere from once to twice a week depending on the week.
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About once a month, 13 gallons, about $32.
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About every 3 weeks, 8 gallons, for about $18. Probably about $350/year.