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Old 02-05-2008, 05:13 PM   #11 (permalink)
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WTF kind of driving are you doing to save you $750 per month?! That's more then I save in an entire year, what do I need to do to pull that off!?
Oh my. Looks like someone hasn't seen my most recent 'ecomodding' project. Step #1 saves me about $565 a month, while Step #2 saves my about $185 a month. Told you it was extreme .

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Old 02-05-2008, 10:46 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I applaud you, Peakster.

And to answer your original question, Doofus:

TomO suggested I add a widget to the fuel log that compares your cumulative savings based on the combined EPA figure for your vehicle. It's not going to be 100% accurate, but it sort of levels the playing field (and doesn't require people to know what they were getting before they changed their started modding their technique & vehicle).
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Old 02-05-2008, 11:04 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Oh my. Looks like someone hasn't seen my most recent 'ecomodding' project. Step #1 saves me about $565 a month, while Step #2 saves my about $185 a month. Told you it was extreme .
O, haha, I forgot about that little "modding" project
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Old 02-06-2008, 12:23 AM   #14 (permalink)
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And to answer your original question, Doofus:

TomO suggested I add a widget to the fuel log that compares your cumulative savings based on the combined EPA figure for your vehicle. It's not going to be 100% accurate, but it sort of levels the playing field (and doesn't require people to know what they were getting before they changed their started modding their technique & vehicle).
You read my mind! I was actually going to PM you about that today. Sounds great.
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Old 02-06-2008, 01:15 AM   #15 (permalink)
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I don't understand why people whine so much about the price of gas, it's 1/3 or less of your cost per mile!
currently I'm getting around 42mpg with the cold, at $3.10 gallon (not sure real price) that is $0.0738 per mile for gas, my total cost per mile to drive my car is around $0.21 per mile, standard tax write off is closer to $0.47 per mile.
So I figure if I can lower that total cost per mile, then I'm doing better! to keep track of that cost I keep a note book in my car that I enter everything that I buy, gas, oil, tires, insurance, regestration, wiper blades, o2 sensor, air cleaner, it all goes in the log! I then wrote down the price I paid for the car, number of m miles on it when I bought it, and a few times a year I add up what I spent in that time, ad it all together, figure out how many miles and figure that if my car was a total loss today (burst in to flames, no insurance, whatever) how much would it have cost me per mile? 21 cents.

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