Tuesday, June 7, 2011

US Trip Fuel Costs

We were keeping track of the fuel we bought on our trip and today I added it up and calculated the average fuel economy.
  • We traveled a total of 5427 km (3373 miles) on our trip including a lot of touring around in the St. Louis area.  The distance over which we averaged the fuel use was 5238 km (3256 miles.)   
  • We spent a total of $500 on gas for 133.6 US gallons ( 505.7 litres) at an average price of $3.75/US gal.
  • The average US gas price of $3.75/US gal =  $0.99/litre which is less than our price in Regina of $1.36 (down to $1.27 when we got home.)
  • Our average fuel economy was 9.65 litres/100km = 24.4 miles/US gal = 29.3 miles/ Can gal

I was quite pleased with the fuel economy of our van on the trip considering it was heavily loaded with equipment ( the oxygen tank is 124 lbs) and luggage and driving at the faster speeds on the US interstate highways as well as the hills and curves in Missouri and stop and go driving in the St. Louis area.

1 comment:

The Blog Fodder said...

Thanks for the numbers.
Better mileage than we get with the Kia but we are mainly town driving and even on the highway it is constant braking and accelerating.