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Registered: 07/14/08
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...when you are not on your bike? My daily driver is a 2000 Silverado. I save a little more than a gallon of gas when I ride my bike to and from work. |
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Drifty_Baker
Registered: 07/14/08
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I have Chevy Silverado also. I have been getting 15 - 17 miles per gallon so with my 15 mile, one way commute I am saving about one gallon of gas every time I bike to or from work. So far this since June 3 I have saved $45 in gas by biking and I have lost 5 pounds.
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bicyclecommuting
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Ford Escape. I average 24 MPG in town
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KimberlyL
Registered: 07/14/08
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Giant Honda Mom Van. NO idea what my MPG is, but probably not too great. Driving 40 miles one way to work for the summer, filling up about 2 or 3 times a week and costs $60 here lately to fill up. DH also has a long commute in opposite direction and spends about the same, although he gets beter mileage than me (drives further) in his Mazda Protege. We figure we're spending about $1200 a month on gas right now. Dang. He's planning on asking to telecommute two or three days a week in the fall, and when I start my new position I'll try to bike commute 3 days a week and the other two I have to go out of town, but the govt is going to pay me $.50 a mile to drive those two days. We might carpool one of them, as then I'll be going into Indianapolis where he works too... Should see a significant reduction in this particluar expense...
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Katy
Registered: 06/30/08
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I drive a Honda Fit. It gets 28 mpg in the summer (air conditioning) and 30 mpg in the winter if my husband doesn't drive it too much.
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Drifty_Baker
Registered: 07/14/08
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I am back to driving the Silverado to and from work. Now that gas is down to about $1.75 per gallon it is not too bad.
I commuted by bike 35 days this year and I figure I saved 70 gallons of gas.
I can't wait for Sring to come so I can start riding again.
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bicyclecommuting
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I recently bought a new home and bought a Nissan Frontier for hauling all the landscaping items etc. It's also a great truck for throwing the bikes in the back and heading the back country 
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Novara Transfer and Raleigh Elkhorn
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clunkerider
Registered: 09/04/09
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During horrible weather and to go very far I have an old 1991 Dodge Dakota Sport. It is handy for work around the house and hauling camping gear, bikes, skiis, etc...I am sold on pickups. I have had two. After crashing with large car two years ago and the firefighters telling me if I had not been drivng a truck my leg would have been crushed, I am willing to sacrifice economy for safety. I miss my old F-150, it was a write-off. |
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