I recommend riding your bike to work. It’s way nicer. And you can get them for cheap at garage sales. You may look foolish, but the money you save you can use at Tiffany’s for your wifey.

If not a bike, go Moped. They get sick nast gas mileage.

Of course, I work on a plane. Go Figure.

I bought my truck in August 2005 and decided as a long term project to track my mileage in a spreadsheet with fill up date, price per gallon, total gallons and miles traveled. I used an averaged line of best fit on the graphs to help smooth things out over the ~60 data points. Been doing the same on Sarah’s RSX for a while too.

The spreadsheet allows for some interesting analysis like my last tank lasted almost 5 weeks, but was my most expensive tank ever.

The cycles in the price of gas is really interesting. The time between bottoms got shorter while the bottom kept rising. Going off the past 2 years I’d expect a peak in June and then a decline to about $3.40 in the Fall.

When I worked in Pasadena the round trip was 41 miles. Now I’m only 7 miles from the office. It sure was was nice to have a 0 mile commute for that year and a half period of time. With the current price of gas if I were still making that Pasadena commute I’d probably end up hurting people or having to find a closer job.

One question, you have mileage and gas data back to 8/1/05 is that accurate data (meaning have you really been keeping track of both) or are they averages? Either way it makes for an interesting graph to look at.

If you were doing roughly 25 mpg before, at 50 miles a day, and at roughly $2.50 a gallon, that’s about $5 a day in gas. You’ve cut your gas expenditures by over 50% by changing jobs, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of over $500 a year! All rough estimates of course, but that seems like the most important thing.