Compute the cost of Driving

We know that the cost of gas is high. Have you actually calculated what it costs to drive your car now?

At the Government website http://www.fueleconomy.gov/ I looked up my year and make and model of car and looked up the average numbers of miles my car gets per gallon. (I know I could calculate that number myself by monitoring the miles I get on a tankful, but this was easier).

Then this website takes the average cost per mile for my model car and computes what it costs to drive a mile This can be very enlightening!

This site also links to http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/gasprices/states/index.shtml which lets you see the current cost of gas around the country and in several gas stations near any city of your choosing.

Use this government website to help you decide when you are going make that car trip or run an extra errand.