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  • From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] travelling for homemade cherry pie
  • Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:35:46 -0700

It's been closer than any of the others I've seen, plus after $3 a
gallon is it really worth it to go look for a penny or two savings?
A typical fillup costs me about 20 gallons. A Penney a gallon is 20 cents, $.10 is $2.00, and so on. While pulling the trailer the issue is how easy is it to get in and out and a concern for running out of gasoline in the middle of nowhere. For the upcoming trip I will carry at least six gallons extra and maybe twelve.

As a data point, three years ago when I started running around in the trailer gasoline was bit under $2 a gallon. A year later it was $2.73, the next year was $3.179, and the last fill up it was $3.619. The next one Monday AM will be around $3.75 a gallon.

I have a record of every gallon of fuel and the mileage I have put in the pickup since I bought it new in 1998, 174,000 miles ago.

Don Bowen KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html




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