How much petrol do you use a month?

[dessiato]

new car - not sure. and it depends on how much parent-visiting we do.

just for work and shops, though - it seems to be running at about £30 a month. far cheaper than public transport.

this was why my wife and I put up with such high fuel costs. The alternative in UK was a much longer and more expensive journey to work.

 

[neonwilderness]

I usually fill up with 50 litres of petrol every 2 or 3 weeks. That'll last about 400 miles.

 

[keybored]

Fill up about 6 times a month at £50 a time (diesel).

 

[foamy]

i do 375 miles monday to friday.
filling up the tank with diesel costs about £49 so i guess that'll do me just over a week.

i use more bloody windscreen washer fluid than anything else, stupid dusty fen roads!

 

[Detroit City]

lets see...

i drive 40 miles/day on avg so that is 1,200 miles/month. my car averages 25mpg which equates to around 48 gallons US per month.

and at $2.00/gallon that comes to around $96/month

 

[Detroit City]

hellooooo!!!

 

[Cobbles]

I was in South Africa just before Christmas. Petrol prices just dropped - 20% - to around 40p a litre.

And people say there's nothing the 3rd world can teach us..........

 

[moose]

Currently around £30 a week to go back and forth to and for work and a couple of localish football matches. Or £60 in a weekend if I feel like having fun I don't drive an economical vehicle.

 

[DarthSydodyas]

If I go to and from work only, I can go on for over 8 week with a full tank of petrol.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

hellooooo!!!

Hello,



I don't have a car but I quite fancy nipping out and buying petrol now.

You can be sure of Shell.

 

[hiccup]

£20/month on average I reckon, but last year it was £20/week cos I was working outside London one day a week.

 

[nogojones]

£200 per month at least. Thank fuck the price has dropped a bit it was killing me a few months back. Now it just hurts considerably.

 

[softybabe]

About £40 ish...I am 'an essential car user' i.e. I need to drive about for my job to see service users, attend meetings and reviews etc

 

[Cobbles]

About £40 ish...I am 'an essential car user' i.e. I need to drive about for my job to see service users, attend meetings and reviews etc

Fine - all we need to do is for enough voters to say "NO MORE" to all this green-wank-bollox taxation drivel and lo-and-behold, fuel will regress to a level that's a reasonable balance between the "cost" of the fuel, a profit for the organisation (shell/Asda) who actually puts it into the tank and HMG.

Just like Poland/SA/etc.

If the Govt. wants money, it can start with spending less on wastrels, rather than gouging those who it thinks can pay 'till they're bled dry.

 

[Roadkill]

You're in a singularly belligerent mood tonight ain't ya, Cobbles?

Bless.

 

[Cobbles]

You're in a singularly belligerent mood tonight ain't ya, Cobbles?

Bless.

What's "belligerent" about stating facts?

 

[Roadkill]

Aw, poor ickle misunderstood Cobblesy-Wobblesy.

 

[berniedicters]

Just interested in peoples consumption really.

I use about £50 per month at today's prices. I've had my car for about 3 years and I've done just over 10,000 miles in that time.

Loads. I get through about a tankful a week - so that's 45 litres or so, weekly.

Quite a lot of that I get to claim back as work mileage, though.

 

[berniedicters]

What's "belligerent" about stating facts?

Heh, "facts".

If that mini-rantette counts as "facts" in Cobblesville, it explains rather a lot!

Sorry, as you were...

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I filled mine up a couple of days ago for about 40 riyals. That used to be about a fiver, but now the exchange rate has gone the other way, which means it's about GBP7.50. Probably about a tenner a month.

I fill up maybe every two to three weeks, certainly not every week. The first few times, it had been so long between filling stops that I used to forget which side the petrol tank was on.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Probably about £100, bit less if I've not been back home so much

 

[liberty]

About £30 a month

 

[Looby]

Jesus, how come everyone does so much driving?

Petrol is pretty expensive.

I spend about 40 a month on petrol and it would cost be that to get the bus to work every day but it would take 2x or sometimes 3x longer. Getting to mates houses who aren't on good bus routes would probably be another 20-30 on cabs, then the monthly shopping trip with food for 3 cats-another cab for a tenner. The insurance and tax etc is worth the slightly higher cost just for the convenience tbh.

 

[mhendo]

Living in southern California, we don't have much choice except to use a car for most of our transportation needs. Also, while we live in the city, my wife's work is about 33 miles north, in the 'burbs. Luckily, being a uni lecturer, she only has to make the trip two, and sometimes three, days a week.

We bought our car, a 1998 Honda Civic, in late August, and since then we've driven 6,529 miles* (10,507 km) on 186.8 US gallons (that's 707 litres, and 155.5 imperial gallons), at a cost of $US 470.10.

So, our mileage has been:

35 mpg (US)
42 mpg (Imperial)
14.8 km/litre

The cost has averaged out to about $94 per month, and about 7.2c per mile.


* About 1,600 miles of that was a trip to San Francisco for the Christmas holidays. It's about 550 miles each way, plus the driving we did while up there.