MPG Increace

66plyValiant said

park the car and get something different for DD, that way when you come back to the car in the evenings and weekends the drive is that much more special and its not costing you $30+ a day to travel

people who drive trucks as a car, or drive RWD cars that get under 20MPG as a daily driver for long distances baffles me; unless you need it for work thats just stupid

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This is also what I do. I just filled up my 2012 Chevy Cruze this morning and it got its worst MPG ever...30.1

On your commute ($3.55/gal):
30 mpg = $4.83 round trip
20 mpg = $7.10 round trip
15 mpg = $9.47 round trip
10 mpg = $14.20 round trip
8 mpg = $17.75 round trip.

If you had a car that got 30 mpg, you could drive almost 4x as far for the same money.

Also... 8 mpg = 4437.50 for one year of driving to work (5 days a week/50 wks a year). The same distance at 30 mpg is $1207.50. That's enough to probably buy another car and insure it.