Miles per Dollar calculator

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Miles per Dollar calculator

chicagorandy 06-24-2008, 8:44 AM
I found this handy/interesting calculator on my Ural web board and thought I'd pass it along.

Interesting to learn just how many miles One Dollar buys these days and the trip/commute calculator can be an eye-opener.

http://www.unfocusedbrain.com/projects/miles_per_dollar/

2003 Ural Tourist - 76,5000kms to date
1982 Honda GL500 Interstate 8220 miles since 05/30/07

"Down the highway of life at smiles per hour"

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Blindstitch2002 06-24-2008, 8:56 AM
The calculator is a lot faster than the way I was doing it with the same results. When I started driving I could go twenty miles per dollar now I am down to 5 miles per dollar. Sure some of you guys use to go a lot more miles for cheap. My truck has a 14 gallon tank so knowing that it use to cost me $14 to fill it compared to now spending nearly $60.

1978 Honda Cx500 Maggot
1979 Honda Cx500 Custom
1980 Honda Cx500 Deluxe Couch Project Bike

CX500 Factory Service Manual
Courtesy of Randall-in-Mpls

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Anonymous 06-26-2008, 8:25 PM
I'm not telling you how old I am, but I sold gas at my part-time job in a gas station when I was in high school for $0.179 per gallon and whe a gas war was on it was $0.149. Of course minimum wage was $0.75 per hour.

I don't think I even want to put my name on this post!

Re: Miles per Dollar calculator

Blindstitch2002 06-26-2008, 9:24 PM
"Your only as old as the woman you feel".

W.C. Fields

1978 Honda Cx500 Maggot
1979 Honda Cx500 Custom
1980 Honda Cx500 Deluxe Couch Project Bike

CX500 Factory Service Manual
Courtesy of Randall-in-Mpls

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chicagorandy 06-27-2008, 6:17 AM
well, I'm 59 (and amazed I've made it THIS long - lol) and I had the good fortune to buy gas during a gas war in a small western Illinois town in the early 70s for $0.17 per gallon.

Remember when the stations would offer premiums with a fill-up to get you to buy their products?

Nowadays it's simply all BOHICA, all the time.

2003 Ural Tourist - 76,5000kms to date
1982 Honda GL500 Interstate 8220 miles since 05/30/07

"Down the highway of life at smiles per hour"