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[Closed] What do you spend on fuel a week ? School runs etc

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£15 a week gets me a 52 mile round trip 5 days a week. Honda NC700 = 85mpg, see?
Well, currently a real 84.3mpg to be precise.


 
Posted : 11/03/2015 9:07 pm
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What Drac said 🙂 (and personally about £100 a week).


 
Posted : 11/03/2015 9:15 pm
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Just checked the figures and in the last year to date I've spent £736.80 on fuel to do 10,684 miles.
£100 a week? You're kidding right? You must spend all day in a car, which is no way to live a life.


 
Posted : 11/03/2015 9:19 pm
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No, not kidding. I do a lot of driving 🙂


 
Posted : 11/03/2015 9:26 pm
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Wow

I've got over 5 years worth of records (Road Trip app) for our car and with my interest pricked I've just been taking a look at it, as the app chucks out all sorts of data.

Over the whole 5+ years we've averaged over 12,000 miles in the car.
Over the last 2 we've aversged 7,500 miles a year
Over the last three months we've averaged a whisker over 4000 miles a year (extrapolated out)

So our car use is dropping quite drastically.
Using the same app I know that all the RUNNING costs (excl fixed costs like tax and insurance which are cheap) for my motorbike are less then just the fuel on the car
Car fuel only 15.2p/mile.
Motorbike all costs 13.1p/mile.
The other day I woked out the bike saves me an hour a day/10 days a year in traffic jam time too
Now, I've got the bike for the job, but I've never crunched all these numbers before but as well as 10 days is saving me £224 a year as well. And it'll never depreciate anywhere near as much as a car either.
Blimey.
Thanks for posting the thread, OP, it's made me realise how right my choice is, and how lucky I am to have this option. 🙂


 
Posted : 11/03/2015 9:37 pm
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It was a finger in the air figure average to be honest. I just checked my mileage log for Feb and it's 3,041.

I just [i]really[/i] like Mcdonald's coffee 😀


 
Posted : 11/03/2015 9:43 pm
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Jeez. I fill my car up at least once a week, and my wife's once every 3 weeks. Thats about £300 a month, which is about £75 is a week ( thats a quiet month for us both) Shit!.......oh, and the kids walk to school normally.

Thats in two economical diesels as well.


 
Posted : 11/03/2015 9:58 pm
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