Want to know how many miles you get for a dollar these days?

[gilpo]

Take the inverse of the price of gas ($3.85 here in MN) 1/3.85 = 0.26 and multiply that by your car's mileage. I get 54 miles per gallon which is about 14 miles per dollar. I was getting 30 miles per dollar when Boosh* took office.

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. for me...

1/3.66= .27 X 26mpg = 7.1 miles per dollar, which means it costs me about 4 dollars for a round trip to get to my classes this summer :(

[gilpo]

2. Kinda depressing... I regret posting it...

[taterguy]

3. As many as I feel like

I ride a bike.

I don't know how much the water filters cost that fill up the tank that I get my water from though.

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. ...

[gilpo]

18. I bike commute 2x a week

It's 20 miles each way, so I can't do it every day (also kids to pickup a couple times a week when the wife can't).

[taterguy]

21. Not quite

a) I don't own any tie-dyed clothing

b) I usually wear a helmet

[Fire Walk With Me]

24. So you're the guy on the left?

[Pierre.Suave]

4. Interesting

hello fellow Minnesotan. :hi:

My car needs premium at $4.06 a gallon average, so that makes it...

1/4.06=.25

I get on average 17mpg which means I get 4.2 miles per dollar, approximately.

:shrug:

[IndianaJones]

5. are you driving a tank? nt,

[Pierre.Suave]

6. NO

I just bought a new car based on emotion instead of common sense. It is great fun to drive, but gets HORRIBLE gas mileage.

To Offset it, my Fiance is getting a Prius.

[IndianaJones]

7. I know what you mean. I used to drive a Bronco daily, 15 mpg...

I downgraded to a V6 and get 30 now.

[Pierre.Suave]

8. well, I basically drive the same car I had before

just a much faster version with a bigger engine and much worse fuel economy.

[AlCzervik]

9. My husbands new car gets about 24 combined, he's not here much so it doesn't get driven often.

which is kind of a good thing, premium here is about 4.17 a gallon.

[Pierre.Suave]

10. yeah, I try to limit my driving as well

Premium here is at $4.04 to $4.08 a gallon right now.

[gilpo]

11. I does make you think twice about that trip to the store....

:hi: jasonc!

[Pierre.Suave]

12. yes it does

or at least which car we are going to take for that trip...

[madinmaryland]

13. More importantly, what is your person miles per dollar.

You indicated you are doing 14 miles per dollar. If you have four people in your car, then you are doing 56 people-miles per dollar.

:hi:

[Pierre.Suave]

15. OH OH that means that

if I have 4 people in my car, I get 16 miles per dollar per person...

That makes me feel better...:P

edit, not really because my fuel mileage is still the same, infact with 4 people in the car, it will probably get even worse...

[gilpo]

17. You are absolutely correct.

Alas, I am usually the only person in it, but a coworker and I are talking about carpooling. That would get me up to 28 PM/$ (at today's price)

[CottonBear]

14. *sigh* * 8.84 miles per dollar. (I know it could be much worse. I sold my 17 MPG farm truck.)

1/$3.79 = 0.26 x 34 (average mileage for my 92 Corolla) = 8.84 miles per dollar.

Back when gas was a whopping $1.50 during the 1990s, I got 22.67 miles per dollar.

[leftyclimber]

19. Ouch.

1/3.89 = .257 * 33 mpg = 8.48 miles per dollar.

At least it's still miles/dollar rather than dollars/mile, I suppose...

[gilpo]

23. "At least it's still miles/dollar rather than dollars/mile"

Won't be long now, will it?

:cry:

[krispos42]

20. 6.41 mi/$

The killer is that I have to do all of the driving to pick my kid up. 220 miles a week, about $160 a month. :-(

I live three-quarters of a mile from work and two miles from shopping. I'd be doing GREAT otherwise!

[Midlodemocrat]

22. I can't figure out how to do the math. Where's DS1?

[DarkTirade]

25. Somewhere between 6.25-7.5 mpd.

That's pretty gorram sad.