Well, the car is mine
As of this past Monday, I have completely paid off my car that I bought four and a half years ago. Since I bought the car with less than 200 miles on it I decided to start accurately tracking my gasoline purchases starting from the very beginning, and in an amazing and uncharacteristic feat, I managed to keep up with that record keeping for the full 4.5 years. Because of that, I can tell you a number of things, in that time, I have paid as little as $1.62 and as much as $4.00, but averaged $2.68 per gallon. On average I get 28.05 miles per gallon, 54.71 miles per day, and $5.01 per day. I have driven 56,529 miles and have filled up my gas tank 169 times with a total of 1974.57 gallons at a total cost of $5276.22. It is also slightly crazy that I have a spreadsheet to tell me all of this.
I’ll leave you with a graph of my own personal price for gasoline from July 2005 – December 2009
Great blog from an engineer with computer power! Congratulations on paying off your car.