I drive a truck that gets 15 mpg, but I only drive around 300 miles a month, so I use about 20 gallons per month.
If you use public transportation, you can calculate this figure this way: miles traveled divided by mpg of your mode of transportation divided by average ridership.
Here is a collection of fuel efficiency data for various forms of transportation.
Since trams are not listed, no idea. They are electric and I believe get electricity from nuclear power. I don’t own a car.
I’d guess I drive about 1200 miles per month, but my car averages 44mpg (the lifetime MPG average is going back and forth between 43.9 and 44.0), so I’m at about 27 gallons per month.
The current job is about 5 miles away and my care gets 25-30 mpg in the city. I work only 4 days although they’re very long ten hour days.
As of this time I’m the only 100+ member.
Ms Hook, who retired in 2008, and myself do a lot of traveling now. We just got back from 42 days on the road to Alaska. After a week at home we hit the road again and are now in South Carolina.
My job is right across the street from my apt., so, absent a weekly trip to check on my mom, it’s about 15 gallons per month. No, even tho I may be increasing my greenhouse gas emissions, I ain’t going to cross the street on foot with all the right-turn-on-red-but-they-don’t-even-slow-down types around here.
My motorcycle get 40ish mpg. 30 mile round trip to work and a couple of extra trips likely puts me in the 6-10 range.
I work from home and most of my driving is within town (gym, parents, grocery). I also do a lot of pre-planning when I go out so I maximize the amount of stuff I get done in one trip, instead of going on several trips.
So, even tho I drive an SUV (albeit the petite Escape), I only fill up its 16 gallon tank about once a month.
67 gallons of gas-1748 miles at 26 miles per gallon (does not include personal miles)
last year-highest mileage month= October- 2469 miles=95 gallons of gas
I drive an older car and had the oil changed today. The guy who checked the mileage looked at me and said, “Is this your dad’s car?”
He was making a joke about the low, low mileage for such an old car.
It’s true - I work two miles away and probably drive a total of 20 miles a week, tops - including trips to the grocery store, etc.
Thus - even though it is a gas hog, with those few miles, I get away with under 20 gallons a month, easily.
I think I could probably buy a Hummer and not have to worry about gas prices or mileage - but again, it helps that I work so close, and all the shops I need are nearby.
I chose the wrong answer. I use roughly 35 gallons monthly.
I bike everywhere and don’t drive at all most months.
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But the food I eat gets shipped in from around the world, and I may have to eat more of it to offset the human energy I use (or at least that’s my excuse for eating as much as I do).
Does producing and transporting the food that fuels my metabolism end up using less gas than solo drivers? Carpools? Bus riders? Damned if I know. I also wonder if the energy spent producing and transporting my bike (and subsequent maintenance parts) will ever recoup its efficiency versus walking…
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I said 1-5. I live in the city, use the El (heavy rail - electric) most of the time, maybe 120 miles a month. I use buses for maybe 40 miles of transit monthly. Don’t own a car, but carshare a hybrid maybe 3 times a year. Everything averaged monthly comes out to not nothing, but not much.
I fill up about once a month, to the tune of 50 litres - 13 US gallons - which costs me about £60, or just under US$100.
For cost and health reasons, I now cycle to work (4.5 miles each way) and about the city, unless it’s pissing with rain, and do a lot of walking. I really only drive for big grocery shopping trips, and to visit people in other towns and cities.
Probably average about 5 tanks a month - approx 80 gal
I’ve joined the 100+ club. My company has provided my a rather inefficient vehicle and corporate housing has forced us to live clear on the other side of a very large city. At least they pay for the gas!
It’s about 130 to 160 gallons per month just for commuting. If I go on a road trip, it becomes significantly more.
Longish commute - 28 miles, but in a Prius that I’ve been getting not quite 60 MPG in. And I work from home one day a week - saving 20% of my gas bill.
100+
longish commute… 15mpg, and if I’m going to meetings or working off-site, I’m closer to 200.
100+
Actually about 150 USG. I drive 100 miles to work, and 100 miles back home, every day.
I commuteon an all-electric metropolitan subway. I guess technically my gasoline consumption is zero in that regard. I have no idea how the electricity is generated but I’m pretty sure it’s not by burning gasoline.
I have a car, and drive it once a week or less. It takes me 2-3 months to go through the 9 gallon tank.