rrounds

I like to track my mileage to, have for the last 49,869 miles.

ROD

TougeHorseman

Hey rod. If you have some time throw together some stats. I'm curious how our yellows compare!

EuroBoutique

Very cool data for sure!

However I must say you must have way too much free time on your hands LOL holy cow I would lose track after my 2nd tank haha

rob-2

What I find most interesting about this data is how the average price over the last 2.5 years has risen slowly.

Followed by the fact I spend more on dinning out than fuel.

rob-2

It's an app Rick. He plugs in 3 points of data. It tracks all the rest.

It's certainly interesting. Years ago I stopped tracking this stuff. Fill and go. It's fun when others do it

TougeHorseman

I added that trend line because it demystifies the belief that it simply keeps rising and falling. I just used a generic excel trend line but it doesn't lie.

TougeHorseman

Yeah the real labor is the simple task of rembering to get the receipt and note the odometer reading. For the first year of tracking I did not have a smart phone so I would just keep receipts and enter the data through the website. I think they came out with an app recently but before I just used the browser on my phone.

I'd say my data analysis took 1-2 hours with lots of distractions. I was clunking around with that trend graph for too long trying To be artistic. Haven't used excel much because I normally use SPSS. Yuck...SPSS!

rob-2

I was thinking it demystifies that notion that it's spiking all the time. That trend line shows something about inflation. Not the Fed's reported rate but the actual inflation we experience - since food and energy are excluded from their insanely low figure

TougeHorseman

I was thinking it demystifies that notion that it's spiking all the time. That trend line shows something about inflation. Not the Fed's reported rate but the actual inflation we experience - since food and energy are excluded from their insanely low figure
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That makes sense to me. I will still quietly complain about gas prices being too high regardless.

rob-2

I was thinking it demystifies that notion that it's spiking all the time. That trend line shows something about inflation. Not the Fed's reported rate but the actual inflation we experience - since food and energy are excluded from their insanely low figure
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That makes sense to me. I will still quietly complain about gas prices being too high regardless.
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HA! I remember buying gas in Germany and Italy. Never complained again Small sedan, 55L tank @ 1.55 euro, translated into $126 fill up. I almost fell over.

I love buying gas in this country. I smile every time I do. Call me weird. I don't even care what it costs. $2/gal was nice but $4 is still cheap. And to think we try to save 10-15c/gal by 'hunting' for gas as a people. Like cave men did for food so long ago!

What blows my mind more is even as the price rises, it's actually getting cheaper for the average American every year that goes by.