Gas Milage for the Truck
Well, I did it this morning. I keyed in every gas receipt I have for the truck. It looks like I am only missing one.
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I have some interesting stats from this. I have spent over $2600 for nearly 1000 gallons of gas. I am averaging 22 MPG.
The cheapest I have paid for gas is $2.54 and the most expensive is $3.15.
My goal for this is to see if I can correlate better gas mileage to certain gas stations. Part of doing this will be to import driving habbits from my GPS data logger. Another project for another day.
View the Spreadsheet
I have some interesting stats from this. I have spent over $2600 for nearly 1000 gallons of gas. I am averaging 22 MPG.
The cheapest I have paid for gas is $2.54 and the most expensive is $3.15.
My goal for this is to see if I can correlate better gas mileage to certain gas stations. Part of doing this will be to import driving habbits from my GPS data logger. Another project for another day.
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posted by Mike @ 6:21 PM
1 Comments:
Where's the cool graph? You should do price over time and also mileage over time.
How are you calculating mileage (fuel economy)? I take the miles since my last fill up (to a full tank) and divide it by the gallons required to reach a full tank. This isn't highly accurate because you're relying on the auto shut-off on the pump to trip at the same head hight. Also, this calculation only works when you fill the tank to full. I've noticed that my car's measurement of gallons used is usually at least 1 gal under the amount I actually put in the car. So there's a discrepancy there.
To correlate fuel economy to fuel brand, I'd recommend that you use the same brand for at least 3 times. Also, you probably need to maintain similar driving habits for those cycles. My fuel economy fluctuates 5 points and that's just using Shell. This shows how much driving habits (local, long trips,...) change your fuel economy.
I should check out some of my averages.
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