Cost to Drive

I ran across this Web site that will tell you, using today's average gas prices, what the average cost would be for a round trip to a location. For example, did you know that a trip from New York to Los Angeles costs $346 in a Hummer H3 and $111 in a Toyota Prius? They love showing that on their site. For example, I used this once when a few friends and I took a trip up north, it allowed us to budget for gas pretty exactly. Sometimes it is a little sobering to see how much a commute really costs you in gas - for example, I showed this to a co-worker, and he realized that he was paying $6 a day in gas just to get to school...and that's before tolls and wear and tear on his car.

CostToDrive.com

Gas Prices

Perhaps you have noticed gas prices increasing. I certainly have.

The higher gas prices go, the better it is to take a moment to check out a Web site like gasbuddy.com - for example, prices in this state are as "low" as $3.75 a gallon, and as high as $4.79. You can see how this can save you some money.

Visit gasbuddy

I also came across this site from a visit to one of my favorite Web sites, thesimpledollar.com - it has a list of 75 gas saving tips. There are a lot of little things that we can do to get slightly better gas mileage, including getting all that extra stuff out of the trunk, which this reminded me to do.

One of the biggest things that saves gas, interestingly enough, was to stop aggressive driving. This is something that I think many NJ drivers could stand to learn...
75 Gas Saving tips