How much does a tankful cost you?

[Lucille]

Friday, my teeny little Corolla cost $35 to fill up at the station. That is serious money: I remember tankfuls of gas for under $10 some years ago, and when I was younger, filling the Honda 175cc for a couple bucks

How much did it cost you last time you filled your vehicle at the service station?

[Jim O]

$76 and that was when diesel was $2.479/gallon. It's now $2.999 here.

[PaulSage]

I usually don't wait until the tank is more than 3/4 empty before I fill up, but if it were, it would be $75-77 for the truck and $40-42 for the car (at yesterday's prices for premium.) Both of them can go about 400 miles on a full tank, so guess which one hasn't moved lately...


I think an interesting statistic would be how much it costs to drive say 10 miles. For my truck it would be about $1.90 and $1.03 for the car.

[RedQuake]

I was at half a tank this morning and seeing as i didn't want to stop tomorrow to get gas before work, i went today. At $1.25/litre (ya Canadian), $20 only got me up to around 3/4 of a tank........so $20 will only give me around a 1/4 tank of gas. I'm driving a Sunfire by the way.

Because i've been working at the big store, instead of the small one i was hired for........i'm now driving over an hour to work........costs me about $20 per trip. Seems i'm getting paid to drive to work......yay!

[Jim O]

Both of them can go about 400 miles on a full tank, so guess which one hasn't moved lately...
My fuel tank has a capacity of 34 gallons and normally I fill it when I need 25-28 gallons. This last time I took a bit over 30 gallons as I was late for the airport to pick up my daughter. I burned an additional 2-2.5 gallons getting there and fueled up after I got her. If I were to buy a "full" tank of 34 gallons it would currently be $112. A more typical fill up of 25-28 gallons would be $75-$84.

I can comfortably go 500+ miles between fill ups if need be.

[Sasheena]

$40 to fill our 12-gallon tank for our Ford Focus. Luckily for us we moved into town 2 years ago... we used to drive 45 miles one way just to get to work, so each day it was 90 miles round trip. Now it's probably 3 miles round trip.

[reptilemama]

Just got gas today, on an almost empty tank- $3.24/gallon, and it took about $38 to full up my Grand Am. If I had a horse, I'd ride it to work instead of driving!

[PaulSage]

My fuel tank has a capacity of 34 gallons and normally I fill it when I need 25-28 gallons. This last time I took a bit over 30 gallons as I was late for the airport to pick up my daughter. I burned an additional 2-2.5 gallons getting there and fueled up after I got her. If I were to buy a "full" tank of 34 gallons it would currently be $112. A more typical fill up of 25-28 gallons would be $75-$84.

I can comfortably go 500+ miles between fill ups if need be.
I used to have a '93 K2500 4X4 Suburban with a 44 gallon tank. ...glad I got rid of that. At today's prices it would cost around $140 to fill it, although it was able to hit 600miles/tank! I remember thinking it was absurd when I'd go to fill it and the pump would cut off at $50 if you were paying with a credit card. They've recently upped that limit to $100.

[Clay Davenport]

My truck hasn't moved since last Monday, and I parked it on a full tank so I haven't filled it up on the higher prices. A full tank would run about $45 now.
I've just been riding the bike everywhere thanks to the long overdue decent weather we're getting. Costs about $13 a tank for it and that gets me 180 miles.

[Chris Steele]

$50
I'm glad I get atleast descent gas milage. This is insane. The reason we switched to petroleum from organic fuels in the earlier years is because it was cheaper and at the time very abundant. Obviously times have changed, I don't understand why we can't begin switching back to organic fuel. Not only would it save the consumer lots of money, but the industrial and agricultural economy would 'boom.' The country would be saving billions per year. The thing is.. bush wouldn't be getting so much money from his big hand in the oil...

[Boidaddic14]

45 bucks to fill my mazda protege and that gets me maybe 350 miles. This is crazy their estimating it'll be 5 dollars a gallon by the end of the year.
Eric

[Dennis1]

I dont know i cant afford to fill it up...lol

[aimee_s]

I've been driving a 2002 Subaru Impreza 2.5RX since May 2002. The first time I went to the gas station to fill up, it cost me $20. I just filled up a couple days ago and it cost me $37.50 :no01:.

My car goes about 260 miles before needing to be filled up again and that lasts me for about a week. $37.50/week to drive... And that's why I started taking public transportation with a difference of approximately $24/week. I think I'll be doing this for a while until gas prices start going down again :>poke2<:

[Cat_72]

I HAD to fill up on Thursday, went to the cheapest station around, and paid $3.09 a gallon for the cheap stuff.

A few hours later, I had to take my son to get his hair cut for school pictures. so we drove the 18 miles to where he gets it cut.....and the station next door to the salon was $2.69. Just because we went over the Minnesota border (where it's USUALLY always higher!) I got ripped off by 40 cents a gallon.....I said some VERY unladylike words.

[Jim O]

Prices have eased some here. Regular gasoline can be found for $2.80-3.05, and diesel for $2.75-$2.90. Premium gasoline can now be had for $3.00-$3.25.

[aimee_s]

My cousin just returned from Hawaii and the gas was $3.09, but what shocked her the most was milk costing $8.00 :bolt01:

[Golden Gate Geckos]

sixty bucks!!!

[Jim O]

Prices here have continued to come down but are still about $0.25 higher per gallon than before Katrina. Gasoline today was $2.599/$2.699/$2.799 (regular/mid-grade/premium). Diesel was $2.699.

I bought 29.863 gallons of diesel for $80.60. The guy in the pump in front of me was in an Excursion and bought 42+ gallons. Ouch!

[DAND]

The grocery store by me has an awesome deal. For every $50 you spend you get .10 of per gallon at their station. You can save it up to the price per gallon. I just put 30 gallons in for $45.00, $1.499 per gallon after my rebated $1.10 per gallon. Saved a cool $33.00 just buying groceries. Can't beat that.

[Jim O]

That's a lot of groceries Dave. :rofl:

[DAND]

That's a lot of groceries Dave. :rofl:

I said you can save it up. :raspberry Now leave me alone I'm going to go eat.

[kiote9]

I said you can save it up. :raspberry Now leave me alone I'm going to go eat.

What's for dinner David?

Did you cook enough for all of us?