Ever wonder how far your money really is stretched when the rubber meets the road? Try using this Miles per Dollar Calculator (MP$) created by UnfocusedBrain – a hodgepodge blog of anything and everything.
This calculator will even tell you how much hard cash you’re spending to get back and forth to work. Try this, use Google Maps (http://www.google.com/maps) to calculate many miles it takes to get to work, running errands, taking kids the to practice, and then back home to see how much you spent in fuel.
I plugged $3.45/gallon of gas into the calculator with getting 25 MPG and it comes to be 7.25 miles per dollar. For someone who lives about 20 miles away from work, I'm spending $5.52 to and from work. Ouch!
Take a look at mass transportation, biking, carpooling or walking to help lessen your carbon footprint and keep the money in your wallet.
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4 comments:
I drive a 1998 Jeep Wrangler (something like 16 mpg) and I live 25 miles away from work. $12.43 to get to work and back..and at 250 days per year of work, I'm dropping $3250 a year in gas. Time to look at a hybrid...
On the other hand, my mother in law lives 3 hours away - thats $90 in gas. Wonder if thats enough of an excuse not to go!
As I listened to your advertisement to change my car from gasoline to natural gas I was wondering if you bothered to think of what this was going to do to the price of heating my home.
I might also add that if my memory serves me right a shortage of natural gas was quoted as a reason for raising the price I had to pay last year. Now all of a sudden you have so much gas we can switch our cars over to it. Hmm! Don't seem to me that this makes much sense.
Thank you
Jake
Jake,
The ads you reference are not from Dominion Resources. Two groups, Chesapeake Energy and T. Boone Pickens, are doing extensive advertising on compressed natural gas (also known as CNG) vehicles.
You can view those ads online at the CNG Now Web site at http://www.cngnow.com. They can be contacted at info@cngnow.com.
Inquiries on conversions should go to the Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition (NGVC). http://www.ngvc.org/
Hope that helps!
Thanks so much for the information. I used that calculator and it was interesting to see how much I've been spending. I've been thinking about switching my cars to natural gas engines and I wanted to ask what you think about that? Is the cost of switching over worth it in the long run?
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