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perspicuity for some of the extra attention to this today. :-) )
7y 11mo: ZIM passes 83,000 miles || 875 mi/mo || 10,500 mi/yr1
2,570.5 gal @ $6,218.68 ($2.42/gal)
Average MPG: 32.275
TCO: $.117/mi (incl. maintenance)
Gotta love watching the trend line of gas prices on my TCO spreadsheet.
Admittedly, this is a difference of all of five or six bucks for me on a twelve gallon fillup; the constant media attention to people's "buying habits being affected by the price of gas" is more emotional reaction than economic event (in my world? This means going out to Subway for lunch once less per month)
Attention commodities speculators: GO FUCK YOURSELVES. Libya produces under 2m BBL per day, and there is more than three times that capacity currently unused in Saudi Arabia alone. You're being profit-grubbing douchebags at the expense of people who are actually feeling the squeeze. I will pimp-slap you with the invisible hand of the market, you cockbites.
1 This figure is slightly misleading as far as my usual driving habits, as there is, typically, one thousand-mile trip taken each year; during our time in New Orleans, this was typically to see friends in Houston, and in Tampa, it's a similar distance to Atlanta. There was also the 2004 trek from NOLA to TPA. My non-vacation driving is probably closer to 9,000 miles... which is still way too far to walk.
perspicuity for some of the extra attention to this today. :-) )7y 11mo: ZIM passes 83,000 miles || 875 mi/mo || 10,500 mi/yr1
2,570.5 gal @ $6,218.68 ($2.42/gal)
Average MPG: 32.275
TCO: $.117/mi (incl. maintenance)
Gotta love watching the trend line of gas prices on my TCO spreadsheet.
Lowest: Late spring, 2003, New Orleans: $1.29
Highest: Midsummer, 2008, Tampa: $3.96
February 15, 2011, Tampa: $2.99
March 7, 2011, Tampa: $3.51
Admittedly, this is a difference of all of five or six bucks for me on a twelve gallon fillup; the constant media attention to people's "buying habits being affected by the price of gas" is more emotional reaction than economic event (in my world? This means going out to Subway for lunch once less per month)
Attention commodities speculators: GO FUCK YOURSELVES. Libya produces under 2m BBL per day, and there is more than three times that capacity currently unused in Saudi Arabia alone. You're being profit-grubbing douchebags at the expense of people who are actually feeling the squeeze. I will pimp-slap you with the invisible hand of the market, you cockbites.
1 This figure is slightly misleading as far as my usual driving habits, as there is, typically, one thousand-mile trip taken each year; during our time in New Orleans, this was typically to see friends in Houston, and in Tampa, it's a similar distance to Atlanta. There was also the 2004 trek from NOLA to TPA. My non-vacation driving is probably closer to 9,000 miles... which is still way too far to walk.
