Do you keep track at all? I was trying to answer that question and also see how much less I would spend if I got a more fuel efficent car...ended up making a spreadsheet cause I was bored.

You can view it here

If you want to put in your own numbers and see how much you spend you can download it here

I think I currently spend a little under $3,000 per year in gas.

How much do you spend?

11/8/2007 2:30:31 PM

Probably ~1200

11/8/2007 2:33:25 PM

how many miles/year do you drive? mpg?

11/8/2007 2:34:33 PM

id say around $750.

[Edited on November 8, 2007 at 2:36 PM. Reason : d]

11/8/2007 2:36:33 PM

I think I get about 20 mpg and drive about 160 miles per week.

11/8/2007 2:37:27 PM

i don't really keep track but i make about 1 trip to the gas station each month, which is never over $30, usually about $25-27. when we go to the beach or raleigh or somewhere, that's extra gas...so i'm going to say maybe 10 extra trips...

so, (12*27) + (10*27) = $594

i live in a small town and less than a mile from work. i drive a 2006 honda civic.

11/8/2007 2:37:51 PM

between the wife & myself, around $2,600-$3,000, but we do tend to travel a lot

11/8/2007 2:38:53 PM

If I take how much I spent last month and do an average, thats like 1800-2000 a year.

I get 28 miles/gallon and fill up about 5 times a month if I don't leave Raleigh.

11/8/2007 3:06:29 PM

yeah i need to look over my credit card statements and see how much i actually spent instead of doing estimates.

11/8/2007 3:13:59 PM

like $3000 i think

11/8/2007 3:14:17 PM

Scooter:
($3/week)*(52 weeks) = $156

Car:
($50/month)*(12 months) = $600

Total:
$750 a year (give or take)

11/8/2007 3:17:03 PM

Very rough estimate of $2100 for the past year, but it's hard to guess at my average mpg because the highway and city for my car are pretty far apart (usually 14-15 mpg city, 22-23 highway) and I'm not really sure how to get an accurate split of city/highway percentage of total miles traveled.

Sigh.

11/8/2007 3:39:48 PM

since march I've spent an average of ~$150/month on gas, and I don't really do any out of the ordinary driving, mostly school and back.

In a year, easily 17-1800 bucks


SUV.....

11/8/2007 3:43:45 PM

maaybe $500 bucks

11/8/2007 3:44:32 PM

first guess: ( 10000mpy / 14mpg ) * 3usd/gal = $2142.86/yr


i fill up every 3 weeks - 28g * 3usd = $84
52 / 3 = 17.33 * $84 = $1500/yr.


i guess i just don't ever drive my tahoe. i drive 15 miles per day average.

15m/day * 365 = only 5475m/year = 391 gallons per year = $1200/yr





example of how i can get 3 completely different estimates

[Edited on November 8, 2007 at 3:51 PM. Reason : ]

11/8/2007 3:47:06 PM

about $3000

11/8/2007 3:48:38 PM

I pay around $1200/year for gas, and I drive around 12000 miles/year. Luckily, my car gets around 30 mpg.

11/8/2007 3:49:59 PM

looking at my quicken last year for fuel, $3,124.44

11/8/2007 3:51:49 PM

About a dolla fiddy

11/8/2007 3:53:04 PM

gf's cousin was spending $800/month

11/8/2007 4:17:22 PM

^does s/he drive a hummer?

11/8/2007 4:37:30 PM

Damn. And I thought I knew someone who used a lot of gas (works in Greensboro, lives in Raleigh). He certainly doesn't spend $800/month though.

11/8/2007 4:46:10 PM

I was spending $300-400/month during extended boating season... Citicards with Gas rebates add up freaking quick... My truck got 13mpg and was my daily driver and then my boat ate 4GPH pulling people and we would run 3-4 hours 2-3x's a week...

but now I drive ~400miles/month and get 36mpg ($400/year)...

quite a change (I LOVE my civic)

11/8/2007 4:49:25 PM

Do you really get 36 mpg, I love my civic but I don't get near what those lame ass gov tests say.

11/8/2007 4:50:08 PM

he has to drive for his job (school system IT dude), and was driving a 90's z71... so probably 12ish mpg

11/8/2007 4:50:33 PM

~$2250 extrapolated for the year

11/8/2007 6:21:08 PM

Quote :

"Do you really get 36 mpg, I love my civic but I don't get near what those lame ass gov tests say."

Whenever I ask people about gas mileage 50% simply quote what the sticker on the car said. I actually break out a calculator each time i fill up. I have a 92 civic and the last 3 tanks were 37,38, and 39.2 (most recent so i remember to the decimal place). I drive 50/50 highway city with alot of stop and go traffic after work.

The s2000 on the other hand.....

11/8/2007 6:28:47 PM

Probably about $600 a year between two vehicles (now that I've gotten rid of my V8 Rovers)

11/8/2007 6:37:39 PM

probably around $3000

but it is ~70 mile round trip for me to go to work

11/8/2007 6:39:07 PM

my credit card offered a breakdown that i viewed last year where you could sort transactions by type for the whole year (gas, entertainment, restaurants, retail) and i remember spending a couple thousand on gas

i won't spend money on gas for the next 7 years (company car for the winnnn)

11/8/2007 7:02:22 PM

i'd say i probably spend 600-700 a month. year

but it seems like i've been going out of town every weekend recently, so i don't know.

[Edited on November 8, 2007 at 7:59 PM. Reason : oops]

11/8/2007 7:59:23 PM

I don't drive a lot, so a tank lasts forever - but at $58-$65 per tank, it still feels like a ton of change.

I'd say $1300ish +/- 200

11/8/2007 11:57:27 PM

probably about 1300 or so

about 100 a month and then 100 on top of that just cause i suck at estimating

[Edited on November 9, 2007 at 12:22 AM. Reason : .]

11/9/2007 12:10:40 AM

$1400 or so

11/9/2007 9:44:48 AM

I drive about 18000 miles per year in my Jeep Wrangler, which lets say gets 18 mpg, equates to 1000 gallons of gasoline. If we say an average price of $2.70, that would be $2700.

11/9/2007 9:48:28 AM

At the rate I'm going, probably about 5-6k.

But I work in Rocky Mount, while living here.

11/9/2007 11:57:02 AM

I drive about 26,000 miles/year and get 33mpg, so thats 788 gallons of gas at $3 (?) each is ~$2,300.

I don't even drive a "gas guzzler"... that sounds like a lot of gas.

11/9/2007 2:13:53 PM

Quote :

"Do you really get 36 mpg, I love my civic but I don't get near what those lame ass gov tests say. "

when I was driving mostly highway I was getting 36-40mpg

now driving mostly city I get 32-36mpg if I shift at 2kRPM's and never floor it for the entire tank it makes 2-3mpg difference...

11/9/2007 2:49:30 PM

I've driven around 10K miles in 4 months and get about 24mpg, somebody else can do the math on actual cost, I'd rather be ignorant

11/9/2007 2:52:30 PM

my car ~ $40/week or $2,000/year
wife's car ~ $40/week or $2,000/year

Total: $4,000/year Hallelujah! Jesus help me!

Thanks for ruining my day

11/9/2007 3:53:38 PM

Since I'm a bike commuter, and my car makes a pretty lawn ornament most of the time, I'd say I spend not even
$30/month for average use (driving from Durham to Raleigh and back to see the boy, and hauling bikes.).

However, I do drive for road trips, probably spend $100 a few times a year on those.

11/9/2007 7:36:49 PM

52 weeks a year, i get $10 of gas each week for the whole week at around 35 mpg

so thats $520

add in the occasional trip elsewhere...so lets say at the MOST $650

11/9/2007 7:40:05 PM

0

i dont own a car

BIIIITTTTCHHHHEEEESSSSSSSSS

11/9/2007 8:00:21 PM

According to MS Money, 661.52

11/9/2007 8:12:25 PM

I don't even want to know, but in the last year we put 24,000 miles on my F-150, about 30,000 on my wife's town car, and a few more on farm trucks, beater car.

11/9/2007 8:14:56 PM

bout $70 a week

[Edited on November 9, 2007 at 11:06 PM. Reason : 105 miles round trip for work >.<]

11/9/2007 11:05:47 PM

my grand am gets decent mileage, about 90-120 a month, so at the most, 1500 or so

11/9/2007 11:07:35 PM

I spend about $60-70/month (equiv. of two tanks) on gas b/c I don't drive too much outside of Raleigh, but I do drive. So I guess around $720-840 a year.

11/9/2007 11:15:53 PM

I can fill up for no more than $30 roughly every 2 weeks. So I guess no more than $720 yearly on fuel.

I drive a Chevy Aveo5 if anybody cares. It gets around 29 mpg on average. Its also one of the cheapest priced cars on the market too. Great little car, has a built in mp3 player which I thought was awesome.

11/9/2007 11:48:53 PM

I probably blow around 3000 to 4000 yearly on gas/diesel.

11/10/2007 12:17:27 AM