DAAWGS!!!

Well, my efforts to track my gasoline usage have run out of gas… I just don’t have the desire to keep on writing down every trip I make, how, how far, etc…

I am comfortable that having tracked my usage for half a year, including some serious winter months, that I can get by on less than 2 gallons of gas a week.  This is better than my goal & probably puts me in a pretty good position for dealing with $10 per gallon gasoline that is likely coming in the years ahead.

So I’ll need to move on to other topics for this blog… I’m open to suggestions.

Updated  Carbon Footprint Meter:

Goal: 0.43 gallons of gas/day.  (3 gallons/week)

Average actual usage:  0.17 gallons of gas/day

Number of days tracked: 72 days

Number of trips made:  127  (covering 1,257 miles)

MPG: 126

Well, I’m still using less than half the gas that I set as a target… however my gas usage has jumped up quite a bit.  I had a meeting that required a suit & tie; some meetings that happened on short notice & then evening outings with my wife.  I’m doing pretty well staying with my bike even when it is raining, but car trips are coming more often than I would like.  Of course back a week or so, I did a ski trip to Mt. Hood (with 2 friends), but of course that hurt my mileage as well.

Oh well, I haven’t left my car behind, but it sure stays in the garage most of the time… and I’m still ahead of my goal and using just over a gallon of gas a week.  Not bad!