$10 gas = 66 cents per mile... *Spin Off Thread*

**PurpleSnowflake** · 05-30-2008, 06:30 PM

Ok a spin off from my other thread.

Say gas were $10 a gallon and you got 15 miles a gallon (average of all vehicles, not super good little cars or guzzling SUVs)... it would equal out to $0.66 a mile.

So it would cost you 66 cents to drive one mile.

It would cost us about $210.00 to fill up one car (21 gallons).

300 miles a week would = $198.00 in gas each week. $792+ a month.

Most grocery stores are two miles from me = $2.64 to go to the store.

Hubby works 12 miles away = $15.84 each day to work/ $79.20 per 5 day week/ $348.48 per 22 day work month.

Visiting my dad/grama is 19 miles one way = $25.08

Visiting the majority of my friends (most are about 30 miles away) = $39.60

Doctor/Hospital is roughly 5 miles away = $6.60

Etc...

What would it look like for you??

**Dancing Lotus** · 05-30-2008, 08:02 PM

Thats very interesting but I don't think I will be doing the calculations. I will just stay home.

**LexTysMommy** · 05-30-2008, 08:34 PM

Im a number dork so I like things like this...

21 gallon car x $10 gallon =$210.00 every 3 weeks. ($70 a week)

$0.66 a mile:

To and from kids school 1.5 miles x 5 days = $4.95/week ( we may walk more!)

To and from grocery store now 16 miles x 2times a month =$21.12/month ( i would be shopping at one a mile away then!)

I work from home so that helps with my calculations.

**PurpleSnowflake** · 05-31-2008, 01:08 AM

It's weird to count out!

Then it made me count out what I pay NOW.

**Clutterbug Jen** · 05-31-2008, 10:31 AM

I don't have a vehicle now but I love this thread anyways!

Wow, I'm so impressed how everything was broken down like that.

It sure makes one think, doesn't it?!

Love,

Jen

**StaceyS** · 05-31-2008, 11:11 AM

I thought I was the only one who did this...LOL

It would cost me $3.30 to get to work each day = $16.50/week (or about 2 hours pay after taxes!)

I would shop, bank, pay rent, go to library, etc. only once a month because that trip would be around $10. Not too bad, because I try to do this anyway. I'd walk to DBF's house (about 2 blocks - I should be doing this anyway, but I would hate to lug laundry!) and I'd walk to our friends' house (about 1/2 mile - we go every weekend to play dice and chat).

I'm a home-body anyway, so I might like it if I was "forced" to drive less.

**ironmaiden** · 05-31-2008, 02:09 PM

My tank is just under 15 gallons. I get an average of 22 mpg.

15* $10 = $150 to fill up. I go through 2 tanks a month for $300DH goes through about the same, though he gets better gas mileage. For a family total of $600 a month.

45 cents per mile.

**Mamaof2rugrats** · 05-31-2008, 08:23 PM

A fortune is all I know! I live about an hr away from Aldi's, 2 hrs from the hospital( which we have to go to all the time), an hr away from a city that actually has anything in it.
Gas is a fortune now, let alone if it went up that much. I'd just be staying home much more often.

**lilk** · 05-31-2008, 10:10 PM

Wow, this is crazy. It would cost me 5.28 just to got to our little town. We have a small grocery, library, and gas station. I don't even want to figure out how much it would cost to go to the hospital or the actual grocery store. It just blows my mind.

**Frugal Nurse** · 06-01-2008, 07:45 AM

I suspect that if gas were $10 a gallon- it's because we've discovered a way to get 400 MPG and the oil companies are still looking for their whopping profits.

But just in case we didn't. I would never purchase (never have) a vehicle that gets 15 MPG. So, I can't cal on that. The lowest I would ever accept (and ever have) is 22mpg. That generally means a 17 gal tank (never had a 21 gal tank in my life).

I would get 374 miles per tank.
44 cents per mile. (still not good)

It would cost me about $170.00 to fill up one car (17 gallons) which is filled once every 3 weeks = $57/wk or $247/mo

My grocery store is one miles = $.90 to go to the store.

Visiting my dad is 15 miles one way = $13.50

Visiting my daughter = 100 m one way = $90.00

Doctor/Hospital is roughly 5 miles away = $4.50

This is an eye opener!

**kestrel91316** · 06-01-2008, 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by PurpleSnowflake

Ok a spin off from my other thread.

Say gas were $10 a gallon and you got 15 miles a gallon (average of all vehicles, not super good little cars or guzzling SUVs)... it would equal out to $0.66 a mile.

So it would cost you 66 cents to drive one mile.

It would cost us about $210.00 to fill up one car (21 gallons).

300 miles a week would = $198.00 in gas each week. $792+ a month.

Most grocery stores are two miles from me = $2.64 to go to the store.

Hubby works 12 miles away = $15.84 each day to work/ $79.20 per 5 day week/ $348.48 per 22 day work month.

Visiting my dad/grama is 19 miles one way = $25.08

Visiting the majority of my friends (most are about 30 miles away) = $39.60

Doctor/Hospital is roughly 5 miles away = $6.60

Etc...

What would it look like for you??

What would it look like for me? It would look like a monthly Metro pass for $60 to me. Gas doesn't even need to get to $10 for a bus pass to be the logical choice. Breakeven is somewhere around $5-6 a gallon, I think. I don't drive many miles, but the old Honda's mileage around town isn't great. And I live 1 block from a minor bus route and 4 blocks from two different major routes.

**ukbb** · 06-01-2008, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by kestrel91316

What would it look like for me? It would look like a monthly Metro pass for $60 to me.

You're forgetting the fuel surcharge they will add in.

UKBB

**frugalnana** · 06-01-2008, 02:55 PM

My parents gave me todays paper and it had in it the price of gas for overseas. The main one that made me gasp was Turkey, its $11.16 a gallon. I guess the people over there are striking and protesting to their government. In just a few years we may be at the price.