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06-24-2008, 8:44 AM
chicagorandy
Joined on 05-28-2007
Chicago, IL
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Miles per Dollar calculator
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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06-24-2008, 8:56 AM
Blindstitch2002
Joined on 05-16-2007
Greenfield Wisconsin
Posts 1,045
Re: Miles per Dollar calculator
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.
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06-26-2008, 8:25 PM
Anonymous
Re: Miles per Dollar calculator
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!
06-26-2008, 9:24 PM
Blindstitch2002
Joined on 05-16-2007
Greenfield Wisconsin
Posts 1,045
Re: Miles per Dollar calculator
"Your only as old as the woman you feel".
W.C. Fields
1979 Honda Cx500 Custom
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06-27-2008, 6:17 AM
chicagorandy
Joined on 05-28-2007
Chicago, IL
Posts 170
Re: Miles per Dollar calculator
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"
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