How much gas have you saved?

[Ford Man]

I decided to see how much gas I had saved since joining www.gassavers.org. and posting my first fill up on 05/10/2008. I based it using EPA combined estimates.

For my '88 Ford Escort Pony
Old EPA Combined 37
Miles driven = 7506.9
Gas used at 37 MPG = 202.88 gallons.
Gas used at lifetime average 44.91 = 167.15 gallons.
Gallons saved. 202.88 - 167.15 = 35.73
Enough gas saved to travel this distance at lifetime average. 35.73 X 44.91 = 1604.6
Dollars saved at $3.75 per gallon = $133.99

For my '97 Ford Escort Wagon
Old EPA Combined 31
Miles driven = 2763.2
Gas used at 31 MPG = 89.13 gallons.
Gas used at lifetime average 44.76 = 61.73 gallons.
Gallons saved. 89.13 - 61.73 = 27.4 gallons.
Enough gas saved to travel this distance at lifetime average. 27.4 X 44.76 = 1226.4
Dollars saved at $3.75 per gallon = $102.75

Total gas saved = 63.13 gallons in 20 weeks.
Total dollars saved = $235.74 in 20 weeks.
Enough money saved to buy 62.86 gallons at $3.75 per gallon.

[Jay2TheRescue]

Well, here's the data on the beast...

Since my first gaslog entry on June 15 (a little over 3 months) I have logged 2,330 miles. According to the EPA combined rating of 13 MPG I should have used 179.23 gallons of fuel to go that far. I only used 153.28 gallons. That equals 25.95 gallons saved. My truck has a 26 gallon tank so this is an ENTIRE tank of fuel saved. Multiplied by my average fuel price since 6/15 of $3.81 this equates to a savings of $98.87 worth of fuel that I didn't have to buy. Gallons saved multiplied by my lifetime average of 15.2 MPG means I can travel 394.44 miles on the fuel saved. All my mods (Grille block, extended air dam, WAI, new PCV valve, new plug wires, new air filter) are paid for 100% in savings with the exception of my Scangauge and my tires. Not bad for 3 months.

-Jay

[Ratman667]

Since may 30th, my first fill up:

24 mpg EPA "combined" rating
3,192.4 miles traveled.
99.637 gallons used


3,192.4/24=133.017 gallons i "should" have used.

133.017-99.637=33.38 gallons saved

my car has a 14.1 gallon tank.

33.38/14.1=2.37 tanks i got for "free"

lets assume i got 24mpg. using the same amount if fuel, i would have traveled only 2,391.3 miles. that is 801.1 miles i got for "free"...

In dollars at $3.75 a gallon this is $125.18 saved

that is with the combined rating. my car has only seen the highway for more than 10 miles once.

lifetime average is 32.04 mpg. not bad considering my driving has been 95% city driving.

[R.I.D.E.]

At the current local average price it cost 6 cents a mile for gas.

About $3.60 per hour to average 64 MPH.

At 127,492 the gas saved by the VX will pay for the 98 Mercedes SLK 230.

regards
gary

[dkjones96]

I can only compare using the bike vs driving to work and around town but I only got it because I was disgusted at how much fuel I was using.

My car averages 21mpg and my bike currently has ~2600 miles so that'd be 123.8 extra gallons in the car.

The average on the bike is 84.7 so that's 30.7 gallons instead.

A savings of 93.1 gallons in ~4 months, 1806.14 less pounds of CO2 in the air, and a savings of $349.13. I'm happy about that. Plus, the bike payment is only like $110 a month so by driving it i'm only paying $23 extra dollars a month for it.

The biggest savings for me will be when I move in June. Right now google maps has my trip from home to work at 12.4 miles with school adding 4 totaling 28.8 miles a day. The new apartment I've finally selected to work is .8 miles with school 2.0 in the other direction(apartment is between the two) for a total daily commute of 5.6 miles. EASILY do that on my bicycle. Also, a savings of 23.2 miles and 45 minutes of my life recovered PER DAY. That comes out to 2.5 weeks to use a gallon of gas on the bike commuting every day on it at reduced mileage.

[Lug_Nut]

How much gas have you saved?None.
I've used gas, (or biodiesel in my situation). I haven't saved any. Semantics, I know. Spending, versus spending less is not the same as not spending anything.
"Saving" fuel is buying just as much as before but using less, and then storing the volume difference for later use.
Hmmm. Even that is more appropriately termed 'postponing', rather than 'saving'.
"How much less fuel have you used since joining than you reasonably have expected you'd have used otherwise?" More accurate, but hardly snappy enough for a thread title.

[Ford Man]

None.
I've used gas, (or biodiesel in my situation). I haven't saved any. Semantics, I know. Spending, versus spending less is not the same as not spending anything.
"Saving" fuel is buying just as much as before but using less, and then storing the volume difference for later use.
Hmmm. Even that is more appropriately termed 'postponing', rather than 'saving'.
"How much less fuel have you used since joining than you reasonably have expected you'd have used otherwise?" More accurate, but hardly snappy enough for a thread title.

I may have not saved it for my personal use but it is gas saved as opposed to having been already burnt.

[BEEF]

since I have been on this site, I have logged in 8294.3 miles (I drive too much) and have used 238.48 gallons of fuel.

If my car would have gotten the EPA of 25 MPG for those miles, I would have used 331.772 gallons, saved 93.292 gallons of fuel. this is unrealistic as I was doing more like 30 MPG before coming here so.

If my car would have gotten 30 MPG for those miles, I would have used 276.476 gallons of fuel, saved 37.996 gallons of fuel.

realistically saving $132.986 @ $3.50/ gal
over epa saving $326.552 @ $3.50/ gal

realistically speaking, almost paid for my scangauge.

[theholycow]

"How much less fuel have you used since joining than you reasonably have expected you'd have used otherwise?" More accurate, but hardly snappy enough for a thread title.

lessfuelusers.org doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely as gassavers.org. :D

[PaleMelanesian]

Since January 2007, 175 gallons saved.

$560 saved, according to the prices each time I filled. More at today's prices...

[DarbyWalters]

I know how much $$$ I have spent...
March = $355.64
April = $400.31
May = $639.13
June = $491.07
July = $525.66
August = $430.59
September = $235.40

Had to adjust my driving usage after price hikes...seems to have worked.

[Snax]

Heh heh, I don't know what my cost savings has been since my transportation situation seems to change by the month, but by Lugnut's logic, I've been saving a little more than 9 gallons in the Tercel since December. Thinkin' I need to go waste it off-road somewhere now . .

[jeep45238]

Since I started using this site (I've been driving close to this way for a while - but the ScanGauge 2 and the fuel log have made me be much more effective at it)

346 miles

EPA Combined - 27 MPG = EPA 12.81 Gallons @$3.68 average fuel cost = $47.14 total fuel via EPA Combined

My combined mileage - 35.83 MPG = 9.77 Gallons @ $3.68 average fuel cost = $35.98 total fuel in reality.

$10 less for 7 days of driving? Can't complain about that.

[Improbcat]

Is there a way to get the garage on here to cough up total miles, average fuel cost, etc? The last time I wanted to figure that I had to do a lot of manual math which was insanely slow.

I do know that as of about 8months of ownership(I'm at 11 now) I'd saved about $475 in gas driving Box vs my old Subaru Outback.

[theholycow]

Is there a way to get the garage on here to cough up total miles, average fuel cost, etc? The last time I wanted to figure that I had to do a lot of manual math which was insanely slow.

Got Microsoft Excel? If so, do this:
1. Open your gaslog in Internet Explorer.
2. Select the data (try to get the headings in your selection but not the graph image).
3. Copy to clipboard.
4. Paste into Excel.
5. Delete any extra stuff you didn't want, like the graph image that you couldn't help but select.
6. Crunch the numbers.

You know all that overcooked bullcrap Microsoft does? It occasionally pays off...

I just tried it with IE7 and Excel 2007, works great. Total miles: 12085.06. Total fuel used: 371.788. Average cost per gallon: 3.477051.

[Jay2TheRescue]

Fuelly does all those calculations too...

http://www.fuelly.com/driver/jay2therescue/k1500

[Project84]

Since my 04/03/2008 entry I began much better maintenance so I averaged it out from that date and currently I've saved $129.56.

My average mpg since 04/03/2008 is 31.395.

By going above EPA mileage, I have saved 34.828 gallons of fuel. :) (or basically 3 fillups!!)

(if we go back to my original average though, which was 27 mpg before visiting this site, I have saved 22 gallons of fuel and $81.)

Also worth mentioning is that on this current tank of fuel, I've gone 20 days w/o needing to refill. This is a bit odd, but previously I would fill every 8-10 days, I bet I now average roughly 15 days between fillups.

[theholycow]

Fuelly does all those calculations too...

http://www.fuelly.com/driver/jay2therescue/k1500

...and if your data is all in your gaslog here but you want to import it into Fuelly as a CSV, the procedure is pretty similar (http://www.gassavers.org/showthread.php?p=120312#post120312) to what I wrote above about using Excel.

[Jay2TheRescue]

I'm not sure if I have Excel on this computer or not. If Dell didn't put Excel on it then I don't have it. I probably should have it though. I use Excel @ work, but I never had to open any of those files on my laptop.

-Jay

[theholycow]

So, you're trying to force me to come up with a REAL solution, instead of taking the easy way out, eh? Microsoft integration be damned, we want a good way to do it...

Er, nevermind. I started to work on doing it using Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net) but then I found that using OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org) (with Opera, Firefox, or IE), you get even BETTER results than Excel. If you don't have OpenOffice, just download it, it's free (and open-source).

Don't want to go to the effort of downloading and installing OpenOffice? Use Google Spreadsheets online: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?new
You'll need to use Firefox or Opera to copy your gaslog to the clipboard, though; if you use IE then Google Spreadsheets doesn't make columns out of it.

[moorecomp]

I joined June 30th of this year. For the 3 months shown in my gas log, my ZX2 and I went 8631 miles (yeah almost 3000/month), used 212.64 gallons of gas, for an average of 40.59 mpg. The EPA combined avg is 25 mpg for a total of 345.24 gallons to go that far. A difference of 132.60 gallons not bought or used. At my 3 month average of $3.96/gal, I have spent $525.10 less than the goverment rating says I should have. I do drive mostly highway miles though, so using the 30 mpg EPA highway rating, I did'nt spend $297.25. This is $100 to $175 per month I did not spend on gas!

God bless us one and all.

[Ford Man]

Is there a way to get the garage on here to cough up total miles, average fuel cost, etc? The last time I wanted to figure that I had to do a lot of manual math which was insanely slow.

I do know that as of about 8months of ownership(I'm at 11 now) I'd saved about $475 in gas driving Box vs my old Subaru Outback.

I figured all of mine manually. I also keep a running total of total miles driven, number of miles between fill ups, amount of fuel used each fill up, total fuel used, tank MPG and average MPG on a Microsoft Works Spreadsheet. Maybe I should add a column for total fuel saved then it could be updated at every fill up. I'm not aware of any way to total everything on the gassavers web site.

[Jay2TheRescue]

@ Holy Cow...

Damn you're good. I'm almost afraid to ask... If I dropped a box of toothpicks on the floor could you tell me how many were still in the box? I guess I'm the same with my cell phones. I always hack the phone's operating systems and set them up custom the way I want them ;) Everyone has their special talent.

-Jay

[philip1]

just since January I have saved 146.694 gallons. I got this number by taking the miles traveled in my log and divide by the milage I was averaging before I came here 18mpg then subtract the fuel I've used in my log.


369.385 gallons at 18 mpg over 6648.93 miles (roughly) VS
222.6911 gallons at 30 mpg over the same miles saved 146.694 gallons

if you figure 3.25/gal average price that a savings of $475.288

[shatto]

Havn't saved much gas.......................But I spent less for it. 5% less.

Here's how:

I got a Costco-American Express Card. Yes it is my Costco card.

http://content.costco.com/Images/Content/Product/AMEX_Consumer_L.jpg

http://www.costco.com/Images/Content/misc/email/left-list-amex.gif http://www.costco.com/Images/Content/misc/email/right-list-amex.gif

Any business qualifies; Amway, Consultant, E-Bay Sales.
Membership is $100.00. You can save that much in half a years gas purchases, and, for example, I just paid around $200.00 for three glasses perscriptions.

[bowtieguy]

i've got 3 credit cards yielding 3-5% cash back. 2 of them have no yearly fee, the other has a $30 fee(might cancel that one tho).

google credit cards to find them. discover, visa, mc, and of course ae have them.

[JoeBob]

Depends on how you figure gas savings...I acquired my '91 Geo about the same time as I joined here. So, if I figure out how much I have saved by driving the Geo as opposed to driving the Cad (which was what I was driving before I got the Geo) it would be:

About 28,000 miles, divided by 37 mpg (Geo lifetime) =757 gallons = $3028 (757 times $4/gallon)
28,000 miles, divided by 20 mpg (Cad) = 1400 gallons = $5600 (1400 times $4/gallon).

Savings of $2572. Now, maybe not all of that can be attributed directly to this website (I was looking for a Geo or similar car before I came here) but the positive reinforcement for the use of saner driving techniques (I used to drive to work at about 80 mph...) and a couple tips and tricks has probably added a couple hundred to what I would have saved anyway.

[Mike T]

102,000 km in the smart over a little less than 4 years as opposed to the Peugeot 405 DL: it would have been 8364 L versus the actual 3988 L. At average prices of fuel, it's about $5000 saved, after factoring in the diesel price differential.

[Ford Man]

102,000 km in the smart over a little less than 4 years as opposed to the Peugeot 405 DL: it would have been 8364 L versus the actual 3988 L. At average prices of fuel, it's about $5000 saved, after factoring in the diesel price differential.

My numbers would be astronomical if I compared my Escort to the Lincoln MK IV I use to have that only got about 10-11 MPG locally and about 14 highway.