Typical Murrican Family Spent Over $4000 on fuel in 2011

[Daox]

Looks like I've used about $850 worth of gas this year and traveled about 13k miles between the Paseo and Prius.

That is down quite a bit from the $1250 I spent on the Prius last year alone over the 22k miles we put on it (switch jobs).

[320touring]

£2338 on fuel for the iS so far, for 15383 miles.

in your numbers that's $3655 for 10 months...

[jakobnev]

It's $1500 or so, but i pay 7-9$/gal over here. That family would have to sell their organs if they wanted to drive around that much in Europe.

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

How about you?

Squeeze at the gas pump: Typical family spent more than $4,000 in ‘11, adding to budget stress - The Washington Post

Pretty ridiculous !

Despite our far higher (double) fuel prices, I've spent 1,922 USD on fuel over the last 12 months - which include the harshest, longest winter in many years.

[MetroMPG]

Spent $209 CAD on gas and ~$9 for electricity to go about 5680 km (3529 mi.) in the fleet this year.

But I'm not typical, Murrican, or a family!

EDIT PS: my cost per mile for insurance (particularly) & maintenance drives me a bit nuts though.

[tru]

well for those under the average there are still those above.

I averaged around $500 a month, and that equals $6,000 for the year

[jamesqf]

Closer to $400 than $4000, though I don't bother to keep track. $20 in the Insight every 3-4 weeks, sometimes longer. Probably a couple hundred in the Toyota pickup the last couple of months, but since most of that was burned hauling firewood that'll replace maybe $2K in heating oil over the next couple of years, I'd call it a win.

Also have to figure that the average includes the neighbor down the road (Mr. Richard Head, as he's known in the neighborhood - we're a formal crowd :-)) who idles his oversized diesel pickup for 15-30 minutes every morning.

[sid]

About $750 so far this year. But I've only driven my truck less than 7000 miles, with another almost 5000 miles on my bicycle.

[nemo]

My car $684 for 5800 miles
Wife's $480 for 3791 miles
Total $1163 for 9951 miles