What's Oppo's gas timeage?

"blacktruck18" (blacktruck14) 09/01/2019 at 17:56 • Filed to: None

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I have c reated a new fuel economy metric, which I am calling gas timeage. To summarize, how often you have to fill up your car based on your life style, commute, etc.

My truck average s around 15 mpg’s, but it also has a 26 gallon tank. Thankfully, my commute, including going home to eat lunch everyday is 10 miles.

Including normal weekend running around town for groceries or having fun I can usually go about 3 weeks without filling up.

What say you Oppo? H ow often do you have to fill up?

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:05

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Work truck:. five times per month , 425 mile range per tank

IS: twice a month, 310 mile range per tank

Pickup: one a month, 250 mile range per tank

Mercedes Streeter > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:08

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Motorcycles: 0.5 times a day.

Cars/truck: 1 time every two weeks.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:11

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If I fill the tank, it’s under a week’s worth of gas for me.

18.5 gallons at 18 mpg, so I usually just fill it at least h alfway twice a week.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:14

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Well, that depends on depends on my work schedule, as I drive extremely varied mileage per week. Last week I filled my little focus twice, getting between 25-30 mpg out of a 12 gallon tank. On Friday I pretty much killed a tank of gas as I had to drive 250+ miles to appraise one house in rural NW Ohio.  

AestheticsInMotion > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:14

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3-5x per month. Small 11 gallon tank, fairly poor mileage, and a wildly varying drive time.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:15

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i usually need to top up whenever i go

but im me powered and inefficient

Chariotoflove > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:16

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I fill up my 17 gallon tank once every week and a half or so. I’m getting around 250 miles out of a tank in mostly city driving.

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:16

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1.5 weeks per fill up, 425 miles to a tank on average and 1 4 gallons of fuel per fill up

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:19

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400 ish miles a tank usually about 16 gallons to fill it up when the range indicator drops below 30 miles (its a 17 gallon tank).  My commute is about 25 miles round trip but its highway at speed so every 2 weeks or so.

Wacko > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:19

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I fill up the Forester at least twice per week when I don’t carpool

The weeks we car pool it’s once per week. Cnd units here so 60 litre tank, and I’m getting about 7.7 Litres/100km

The pathfinder is now 100% family hauler and my wife is at home so about once every 2 weeks. 

Rainbow > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:21

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Work truck: daily.

Personal truck: weekly.

Longtime Lurker > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:38

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Ranger: 4 weeks in the winter 6 in the summer.

BMW: 3-4 weeks only summer driven.

blacktruck18 > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus 09/01/2019 at 18:39

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WOW!! How often do you have to drive that far for work? Occasionally that would be awesome, regularly that would be extremely a nnoying.

TheRealBicycleBuck > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:42

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Twice a week. Once when I leave Baton Rouge. Once when I come home. That’s two 3/4 tank fill- ups. When I was in ground school, it was two full tanks and sometimes a little bit more every week.

blacktruck18 > Wacko 09/01/2019 at 18:42

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Mrs. Blacktruck stays home too and her car gets good mileage. She can it almost 6 weeks out of 18 gallons.

wafflesnfalafel > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:42

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T op up once a week but it hardly ever drops below half a tank. Range is a bit over 400 miles on a tank with average driving, 450 hwy driving conservatively.  My wife has a short commute so she can go 2-3 weeks normally.    

ST80MND > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:43

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I am 1 tank per week, or tpw in timage. Actual tpw is 1/2, but I budget a tank for pleasure rips. 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:46

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I usually get right about 20.5mpg around town and 22-24mpg on the highway with the F-150. My timage is dependent on how often we go up to the lake 90 miles away, and other out of town trips on the weekend. With the usual of a trip up to Abq once ever 2-3 months and going the lake 2 twice a month, along with my 3 mile round trip commute, I fill up twice a month usually. Outside of boating season, I can sometimes go over a month without visiting a gas station. I’m also not one to run the tank low very often, so I could fill up far less often than I do. A combination of my nature, and big distances between possible fuel stops in some of the places I venture to for camping/hiking and the like, there isn’t an incentive to run around with a low tank.

blacktruck18 > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/01/2019 at 18:46

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You should calculate your booze mileage, mil es ridden to ounces of booze and beer consumed.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:47

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Not too often. I usually try to group several houses in a day, so I maybe drive between 100-150 miles every 3-4 days. My office, however, is 5 miles from my house. Easy commute.  

HammerheadFistpunch > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 18:49

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10 to 12 days. my wife's car seems to perpetually stuck on empty

blacktruck18 > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/01/2019 at 18:50

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What engine does your F-150 have?

The 6.2 in my Denali is horrible around town hence the 15, but I can get up to 22-23 on the highway if I do speed limit.

gettingoldercarguy > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 19:04

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I fill up once every three or four months with twelve gallons . My wife fills up once every three weeks with about fifteen gallons. We averaged 38.3mpg driving down to and back from Portland.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 19:09

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2.7 ecoboost. That 22-24 mpg (depending on terrain and wind) is with the cruise set at 80mph. In a state with slower speed limits (or fewer mountains and canyons) , it would certainly do better. Mine also has the shortest available 3.73 gears. They tow like a champ, but I think it would certainly get another 1 or 2mpg better unloaded if it were turning a bit fewer rpms at speed.

TheJWT > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 19:26

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Every 3-4 weeks for my car, every week for my bike...

Alfalfa > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 20:39

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So seldom lately that  I can’t keep track without a concerted effort. My commute is now 11 miles round trip, and I only make it 3 times a week. I get around 23 mpg with a 14 gallon tank. Combined with any other driving I do I still often go over a month without filling up.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 20:55

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Triumph Bonneville - half a tank every week (16L tank)

I have a very very short commute.   

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > blacktruck18 09/01/2019 at 21:01

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Usually about 2-3 times a month for me...2 or so times during the summer months as I am not traveling as far for my summer side business, but when I am teaching during the school year I drive a lot for subbing.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > blacktruck18 09/02/2019 at 00:59

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ive found my mileage goes down the more i drink....but the likelyhood of me riding down stairs where im not allowed to goes up

phenotyp > blacktruck18 09/02/2019 at 01:37

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Last 25.5 months- 4 fill-ups @~2 gal each, so... every 5-6 months on average (though most of them have been in the summer months, not evenly spaced out, currently sitting on a full tank for the last 6 weeks or so ).

Though if we’re counting electrons, I top up every day or every other day.

pip bip - choose Corrour > blacktruck18 09/02/2019 at 04:45

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now the footy is almost over for me, it’ll go back to twice a week

just-a-scratch > blacktruck18 09/02/2019 at 10:14

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The 328i gets a fi ll up about every two months. I don't drive most days. 

blacktruck18 > phenotyp 09/02/2019 at 13:41

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Speaking of electrons, I can never own an electric car. My lawnmower is electric and...

Yet again, I forget to charge the batteries between mowings. Guess, I'll finish up later today.

bhtooefr > blacktruck18 09/03/2019 at 07:11

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I’ve filled up 16 times in the past year.

~ 11 gallon tank, 10 miles per day commuting, ~50 MPG, so I can get about 11 weeks per tank if I drive to work and back every day (including stops along the way home), and nothing else.

In practice, I do enough other driving that the most I get is 6 weeks a tank.